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Parenting During COVID‐19: A Study of Parents' Experiences Across Gender and Income Levels by Kerr, Margaret L., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Fanning, Kerrie A., Braaten, Sarah M.

“…Objective This study describes parenting experiences at the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic and examines differences across parent gender and family income…”
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Book Talk: Promoting Race-Conscious Conversations in White Families through a Preschool-Based Reading Curriculum by Botto, Inés, Kerr, Margaret L.

“…White parents in the United States are unlikely to engage their preschool children in proactive discussions about race, instead waiting to follow their…”
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Parents’ Self-Reported Psychological Impacts of COVID-19: Associations With Parental Burnout, Child Behavior, and Income by Kerr, Margaret L, Fanning, Kerrie A, Huynh, Tuyen, Botto, Inés, Kim, Christina N

“…Abstract Objective The current study investigates associations between parents’ perceived coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) psychological impacts and…”
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Different Patterns of Endorsement of Intensive Mothering Beliefs: Associations With Parenting Guilt and Parental Burnout by Kim, Christina N., Kerr, Margaret L.

“…The unrealistic expectations rooted in intensive mothering beliefs can negatively impact maternal well-being. The present study investigates associations…”
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"More Quality Time" but "No Breaks": COVID-19 Parenting Among Predominantly White, Married, U.S. Mothers by Kerr, Margaret L., Al Nassar, Nadia, Botto, Inés, Kim, Christina N., Fanning, Kerrie

“…Family life dramatically changed following the COVID-19 pandemic onset. Parents faced school and childcare closures, employment changes, and other disruptions…”
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Relational Savoring Intervention: Positive Impacts for Mothers and Evidence of Cultural Compatibility for Latinas by Borelli, Jessica L., Kerr, Margaret L., Smiley, Patricia A., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Hecht, Hannah K., Campos, Belinda

“…Parenting young children poses numerous emotion regulation challenges, and prevention programs that promote emotion regulation skills can help with this…”
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Exploring the Complexity of Mothers' Real-Time Emotions While Caregiving by Kerr, Margaret L., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Buttitta, Katherine V., Smiley, Patricia A., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Existing research suggests that parenthood is both emotionally rewarding and demanding, yet little work has examined multiple facets of parents' emotions. The…”
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In a father's mind: paternal reflective functioning, sensitive parenting, and protection against socioeconomic risk by Buttitta, Katherine V., Smiley, Patricia A., Kerr, Margaret L., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Querdasi, Francesca R., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…This study utilized attachment theory as a framework for understanding how fathers' reflective functioning (RF) and social emotional (SE) and autonomy (AU)…”
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Within- and Between-Family Differences in Mothers' Guilt and Shame: Caregiving, Coparenting, and Attachment by Kerr, Margaret L., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Smiley, Patricia A., Fanning, Kerrie A., Buttitta, Katherine V., Benson, Lizbeth, Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Parenting is a highly emotional experience. Within the broader array of parenting emotion, the self-conscious emotions, such as shame and guilt, have…”
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Parental Reflective Capacities: A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting and Parental Reflective Functioning by Huynh, Tuyen, Kerr, Margaret L., Kim, Christina N., Fourianalistyawati, Endang, Chang, Vickie Ya-Rong, Duncan, Larissa G.

“…Objectives Two key parental reflective capacities—mindful parenting (MP) and parental reflective functioning (PRF) — have been shown to promote healthy…”
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Higher maternal reflective functioning is associated with toddlers’ adaptive emotion regulation by Borelli, Jessica L., Lai, Jocelyn, Smiley, Patricia A., Kerr, Margaret L., Buttitta, Katherine, Hecht, Hannah K., Rasmussen, Hannah F.

“…ABSTRACT Parental reflective functioning (RF), the ability to consider the child's behavior as a function of mental states (cognitions, emotions), is theorized…”
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Relational Savoring: An Attachment-Based Approach to Promoting Interpersonal Flourishing by Borelli, Jessica L., Smiley, Patricia A., Kerr, Margaret L., Hong, Kajung, Hecht, Hannah K., Blackard, M. Betsy, Falasiri, Ehsan, Cervantes, Breana R., Bond, David Kyle

“…Our purpose is to introduce a novel technique for evoking emotions associated with moments of closeness with another person (relational savoring), to describe…”
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Associations between mothers’ emotion regulation and real‐time experiences of negative emotion: The moderating role of caregiving context by Park, Ye Rang, Kerr, Margaret L., Smiley, Patricia A., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Parents’ emotion regulation and emotional experiences have important consequences for family well‐being and child outcomes. Little is known about whether…”
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Savoring interventions for mothers of young children: Mechanisms linking relational savoring and personal savoring to reflective functioning by Borelli, Jessica L., Kazmierski, Kelly F. M., Gaskin, Gerin E., Kerr, Margaret L., Smiley, Patricia A., Rasmussen, Hannah F.

“…Parenting interventions can improve parenting outcomes, with widespread implications for children's developmental trajectories. Relational savoring (RS) is a…”
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Mothers' Real-Time Emotion as a Function of Attachment and Proximity to Their Children by Kerr, Margaret L., Buttitta, Katherine V., Smiley, Patricia A., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Building on established links between attachment insecurity and maladaptive emotion regulation, here we examine whether traitlike attachment style predicts…”
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Quantitatively Representing Real-Time Emotion Dynamics: Attachment-Based Differences in Mothers' Emotion Experiences by Somers, Jennifer A., Kerr, Margaret L., McNeish, Daniel, Smiley, Patricia A., Buttitta, Katherine V., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Given inconsistent findings emerging in the literature between motherhood and emotional well-being, it is important to employ cutting-edge methods to evaluate…”
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A relational savoring intervention predicts higher levels of adherence to COVID-19 health recommendations by Doan, Stacey N., Smiley, Patricia, Kerr, Margaret L., Vicman, Jessica M., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…Understanding factors that are related to engagement in health behaviors during a health emergency is critical. Positive psychology interventions have been…”
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Fathers' emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration by Kerr, Margaret L., Fanning, Kerrie A., Engbretson, Ashleigh M., Buttitta, Katherine V., Borelli, Jessica L., Smiley, Patricia A., Rasmussen, Hannah F.

“…Though fatherhood research has recently burgeoned, extant literature primarily focuses on father characteristics and father-child interactions. A critical gap…”
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Enhancing Remote Parent–Child Video Visits During Parental Incarceration Using IMMERSIVE, a Brief Mindful Relational Savoring Intervention by Kerr, Margaret L., Charles, Pajarita, Pritzl, Kaitlyn, Jensen, Sarah, Krishnan, Chandni Anandha, Ylizaliturri, Victoria, Poehlmann, Julie

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The development of toddlers’ emotion regulation within the family system: associations with observed parent-child synchrony and interparental relationship satisfaction by Kerr, Margaret L., Rasmussen, Hannah F., Smiley, Patricia A., Buttitta, Katherine V., Borelli, Jessica L.

“…•Father-child synchrony uniquely important for toddlers’ emotion regulation.•Mother-child synchrony not associated with toddlers’ emotion…”
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