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W. Roger Mills-Koonce is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of psychology, with a focus on subfields such as clinical psychology, social psychology, education, sociology and political science, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work centers around several main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Mills-Koonce has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Family Relations
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mills-Koonce include:

  • The neurophysiological embedding of child maltreatment, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • Characterizing change in vagal tone during the first three years of life: A systematic review and empirical examination across two longitudinal samples, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Attachment quality assessed from children's family drawings links to child conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors, 2020, Attachment & Human Development
  • Maternal and Paternal Attachment Style and Chaos as Risk Factors for Parenting Behavior, 2020, Family Relations
  • The Brain and Early Experience Study: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study, 2022, JMIR Research Protocols

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including:

  • Cathi B. Propper
  • Michael T. Willoughby
  • Sarah J. Short
  • Martha J. Cox
  • Nicholas J. Wagner

Best Publications

  • Infant and parent factors associated with early maternal sensitivity: A caregiver-attachment systems approach

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Jean Louis Gariépy;Cathi Propper;Kelly Sutton

  • Mother–Infant Vagal Regulation in the Face-To-Face Still-Face Paradigm Is Moderated by Maternal Sensitivity

    Ginger A. Moore;Ashley L. Hill-Soderlund;Cathi B. Propper;Susan D. Calkins

  • The family model stress and maternal psychological symptoms: mediated pathways from economic hardship to parenting.

    Rebecca P. Newland;Keith A. Crnic;Martha J. Cox;W. Roger Mills-Koonce

  • Parasympathetic and sympathetic responses to the strange situation in infants and mothers from avoidant and securely attached dyads

    Ashley L. Hill-Soderlund;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Cathi Propper;Susan D. Calkins

  • Interdependence of Parenting of Mothers and Fathers of Infants

    Melissa A. Barnett;Min Deng;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Michael Willoughby

  • Adult Attachment Style and Stress as Risk Factors for Early Maternal Sensitivity and Negativity.

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Karen Appleyard;Melissa Barnett;Min Deng

  • Bidirectional Associations Among Sensitive Parenting, Language Development, and Social Competence.

    Melissa A. Barnett;Hanna Gustafsson;Min Deng;W. Roger Mills-Koonce

  • Gene – Environment Contributions to the Development of Infant Vagal Reactivity: The Interaction of Dopamine and Maternal Sensitivity

    Cathi Propper;Ginger A. Moore;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Carolyn Tucker Halpern

  • Household Chaos and Children's Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Development in Early Childhood: Does Childcare Play a Buffering Role?

    Daniel Berry;Clancy Blair;Michael Willoughby;Patricia Garrett-Peters

  • Psychophysiological correlates of parenting behavior in mothers of young children

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Cathi Propper;Jean Louis Gariepy;Melissa Barnett

  • Bidirectional genetic and environmental influences on mother and child behavior: The family system as the unit of analyses

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Cathi B. Propper;Jean Louis Gariepy;Clancy Blair

  • The interplay among socioeconomic status, household chaos, and parenting in the prediction of child conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors.

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Michael T. Willoughby;Patricia Garrett-Peters;Nicholas Wagner

  • Sexual Minority Stress and Same-Sex Relationship Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis of Research Prior to the U.S. Nationwide Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage.

    Hongjian Cao;Nan Zhou;Mark Fine;Yue Liang

  • Mothers' and Fathers' Sensitivity and Children's Cognitive Development in Low-Income, Rural Families.

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Michael T. Willoughby;Bharathi Zvara;Melissa Barnett

  • A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Parenting and Developmental Psychopathology

    Susan D. Calkins;Cathi Propper;W. Roger Mills-Koonce

  • Measuring Callous Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood: Factor Structure and the Prediction of Stable Aggression in Middle Childhood

    Michael T. Willoughby;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Nisha C. Gottfredson;Nicholas J. Wagner

  • Association between Maternal sensitivity and Externalizing Behavior from Preschool to Preadolescence.

    Feihong Wang;Sharon L. Christ;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Patricia Garrett-Peters

  • Father Contributions to Cortisol Responses in Infancy and Toddlerhood

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Patricia Garrett-Peters;Melissa Barnett;Douglas A. Granger

  • The Significance of Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships for Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Peter D. Rehder;Amy L. McCurdy

  • Mother-Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families

    Melissa A. Barnett;W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Hanna Gustafsson;Martha Cox

  • Changes in maternal sensitivity across the first three years: are mothers from different attachment dyads differentially influenced by depressive symptomatology?

    W. Roger Mills-Koonce;Jean Louis Gariepy;Kelly Sutton;Martha J. Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha J. Cox
Martha J. Cox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael T. Willoughby
Michael T. Willoughby RTI International
Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Clancy Blair
Clancy Blair New York University
Susan D. Calkins
Susan D. Calkins University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lynne Vernon-Feagans
Lynne Vernon-Feagans University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cynthia A. Stifter
Cynthia A. Stifter Pennsylvania State University
Mark A. Fine
Mark A. Fine University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Keith A. Crnic
Keith A. Crnic Arizona State University
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Carolyn Tucker Halpern University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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