Publications by authors named "Crystal E Thinzar"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how toddler temperament influences parent-child conversation, focusing on families under economic strain.
- It finds that toddlers with challenging temperaments (high negative affect and low self-control) engage less in conversations with their parents.
- While there were no direct connections between temperament and language skills, parent-child conversations were shown to mediate the relationship, suggesting that encouraging these interactions can boost language development.
Child Anxiety and Depression Symptom Trajectories and Predictors over 15 Months of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
February 2023
Repeated measures are required to monitor and map trajectories of mental health symptoms that are sensitive to the changing distal and proximal stressors throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Understanding symptoms in young children is particularly important given the short- and long-term implications of early-onset internalizing symptoms. This study utilized an intensive longitudinal approach to assess the course and environmental correlates of anxiety and depression symptoms in 133 children, ages 4-11 (M = 7.
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