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Overview

Stephanie D. Stepp is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of psychology, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and education.

Their research addresses key topics within psychology, focusing notably on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, mental health research topics, suicide and self-harm studies, psychotherapy techniques and applications, child abuse and trauma, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Stephanie D. Stepp has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications, with recent papers including:

  • Affective Dynamics Across Internalizing and Externalizing Dimensions of Psychopathology, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Personalized models of psychopathology as contextualized dynamic processes: An example from individuals with borderline personality disorder, 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Are We Thinking about the Same Disorder? A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand Parents' and Their Adolescents' Reports of Borderline Personality Pathology, 2022, Journal of Personality Assessment
  • A Multi-Method Investigation of Parental Responses to Youth Emotion: Prospective Effects on Emotion Dysregulation and Reactive Aggression in Daily Life, 2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Adolescent suicide risk and experiences of dissociation in daily life, 2020, Psychiatry Research

Their frequent coauthors include Amy L. Byrd, Alison E. Hipwell, Vera Vine, Kate Keenan, and Salome Vanwoerden. Collaboration with these researchers is indicated by multiple joint publications.

Stephanie D. Stepp regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Children of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder: Identifying Parenting Behaviors as Potential Targets for Intervention

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Diana J. Whalen;Paul A. Pilkonis;Alison E. Hipwell

  • Borderline personality disorder features predict negative outcomes 2 years later.

    Courtney Bagge;Angela Nickell;Stephanie Stepp;Christine Durrett

  • Trajectories of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms as Precursors of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms in Adolescent Girls

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Jeffrey D. Burke;Alison E. Hipwell;Rolf Loeber

  • The Pittsburgh Girls Study: Overview and Initial Findings

    Kate Keenan;Alison Hipwell;Tammy Chung;Stephanie Stepp

  • Criterion validity of the general factor of psychopathology in a prospective study of girls

    Benjamin B. Lahey;Paul J. Rathouz;Kate Keenan;Stephanie D. Stepp

  • The effect of dialectical behavior therapy skills use on borderline personality disorder features

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Amee J. Epler;Seungmin Jahng;Timothy J. Trull

  • A systematic review of risk factors prospectively associated with borderline personality disorder: Taking stock and moving forward.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Sophie A. Lazarus;Amy L. Byrd

  • Prospective associations between features of borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, and aggression.

    Lori N. Scott;Stephanie D. Stepp;Paul A. Pilkonis

  • The clinical utility of the proposed DSM-5 callous-unemotional subtype of conduct disorder in young girls.

    Dustin Pardini;Stephanie Stepp;Alison Hipwell;Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

  • Parent and peer relationships as longitudinal predictors of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury onset

    Sarah E. Victor;Alison E. Hipwell;Stephanie D. Stepp;Lori N. Scott

  • Identifying the irritability dimension of ODD: Application of a modified bifactor model across five large community samples of children

    Jeffrey D. Burke;Khrista Boylan;Richard Rowe;Eric Duku

  • Reciprocal effects of parenting and borderline personality disorder symptoms in adolescent girls.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Diana J. Whalen;Lori N. Scott;Maureen Zalewski

  • The Role of Attachment Styles and Interpersonal Problems in Suicide-Related Behaviors

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Jennifer Q. Morse;Kirsten E. Yaggi;Sarah K. Reynolds

  • The effect of pathological narcissism on interpersonal and affective processes in social interactions.

    Aidan G C Wright;Stephanie D Stepp;Lori N Scott;Michael N Hallquist

  • Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation as predictors of suicide attempts in adolescent girls: a multi-wave prospective study.

    Lori N. Scott;Paul A. Pilkonis;Alison E. Hipwell;Kate Keenan

  • Interpersonal and emotional experiences of social interactions in borderline personality disorder.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Paul A. Pilkonis;Kirsten E. Yaggi;Jennifer Q. Morse

  • Borderline personality disorder symptoms and aggression: A within-person process model.

    Lori N. Scott;Aidan G. C. Wright;Joseph E. Beeney;Sophie A. Lazarus

  • Adolescent Disruptive Behavior and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Men

    Jeffrey D. Burke;Stephanie D. Stepp

  • Attachment and social cognition in borderline personality disorder: Specificity in relation to antisocial and avoidant personality disorders

    Joseph E. Beeney;Stephanie D. Stepp;Michael N. Hallquist;Lori N. Scott

  • Emotion dysregulation as a maintenance factor of borderline personality disorder features.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Lori N. Scott;Jennifer Q. Morse;Kimberly A. Nolf

  • Stability of borderline personality disorder features in girls.

    Stephanie D. Stepp;Paul A. Pilkonis;Alison E. Hipwell;Rolf Loeber

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
Kate Keenan
Kate Keenan University of Chicago
Michael N. Hallquist
Michael N. Hallquist Pennsylvania State University
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Tammy Chung
Tammy Chung Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Diana J. Whalen
Diana J. Whalen Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer Q. Morse
Jennifer Q. Morse University of Pittsburgh
Andrea B. Goldschmidt
Andrea B. Goldschmidt University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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