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Rena L. Repetti is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research broadly spans various fields within psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, education, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and aging.

Their research topics include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, youth substance use and school attendance, mental health research topics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, psychotherapy techniques and applications, as well as genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms.

Repetti has published several articles in prominent journals, highlighting a range of research interests. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Daily Mood Reactivity to Stress during Childhood Predicts Internalizing Problems Three Years Later" (2020) in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • "Relationship closeness buffers the effects of perceived stress on transcriptomic indicators of cellular stress and biological aging marker p16INK4a" (2020) in Aging
  • "Everyday emotions: Naturalistic observation of specific positive emotions in daily family life." (2021) in Journal of Family Psychology
  • "Increases in positive emotions as precursors to therapeutic change" (2021) in Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • "'You okay, honey?': Marital quality and mental health as correlates to couples' compassion." (2023) in Journal of Family Psychology

The primary venues where Repetti has published include:

  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Aging

Frequent collaborators in their research encompass:

  • Galen D. McNeil
  • Sunhye Bai
  • Theodore F. Robles
  • Bridget M. Reynolds
  • Kelly E. Rentscher

This partnership history suggests ongoing research contributions to domains such as family psychology, childhood development, stress response, and aging at the cellular level.

Best Publications

  • Risky Families: Family Social Environments and the Mental and Physical Health of Offspring

    Rena L. Repetti;Shelley E. Taylor;Teresa E. Seeman

  • Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Rena L. Repetti;Teresa Seeman

  • Work and family in the 1990s

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins;Rena L. Repetti;A. N. N. C. Crouter

  • Effects of daily workload on subsequent behavior during marital interaction: the roles of social withdrawal and spouse support.

    Rena L. Repetti

  • Employment and women's health: Effects of paid employment on women's mental and physical health.

    Rena L. Repetti;Karen A. Matthews;Ingrid Waldron

  • Effects of Daily Stress at Work on Mothers' Interactions With Preschoolers

    Rena L. Repetti;Jenifer Wood

  • Classroom social experiences as predictors of academic performance.

    Lisa Flook;Rena L. Repetti;Jodie B. Ullman

  • For better or worse? Coregulation of couples' cortisol levels and mood states.

    Darby Saxbe;Rena L. Repetti

  • Daily occupational stressors and marital behavior.

    Lisa B. Story;Rena Repetti

  • Individual and common components of the social environment at work and psychological well-being.

    Rena L. Repetti

  • Linkages between work and family roles.

    Rena L. Repetti

  • Short‐term and long‐term processes linking job stressors to father–child interaction

    Rena L. Repetti

  • Allostatic processes in the family

    Rena L. Repetti;Theodore F. Robles;Bridget Reynolds

  • Short-Term Effects of Occupational Stressors on Daily Mood and Health Complaints

    Rena L. Repetti

  • Bringing It All Back Home How Outside Stressors Shape Families' Everyday Lives

    Rena Repetti;Shu-wen Wang;Darby Saxbe

  • Marital satisfaction, recovery from work, and diurnal cortisol among men and women.

    Darby E. Saxbe;Rena L. Repetti;Adrienne Nishina

  • What gets dad involved? A longitudinal study of change in parental child caregiving involvement.

    Jeffrey J. Wood;Rena L. Repetti

  • Conflict in families and the psychological adjustment of preadolescent children.

    Lisa H. Jaycox;Rena L. Repetti

  • Video Ethnography and Ethnoarchaeological Tracking.

    Elinor Ochs;Anthony P. Graesch;Angela Mittmann;Thomas Bradbury

  • A longitudinal study of children's depressive symptoms, self-perceptions, and cognitive distortions about the self.

    Emily P. McGrath;Rena L. Repetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodore F. Robles
Theodore F. Robles University of California, Los Angeles
Darby E. Saxbe
Darby E. Saxbe University of Southern California
Jeffrey J. Wood
Jeffrey J. Wood University of California, Los Angeles
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Richard B. Slatcher
Richard B. Slatcher University of Georgia
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas N. Bradbury
Thomas N. Bradbury University of California, Los Angeles
Scott C. Roesch
Scott C. Roesch San Diego State University
Ann C. Crouter
Ann C. Crouter Pennsylvania State University
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh

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