Search Results - "Molfese, Victoria J."

Examining the associations between performance based and ratings of focused attention in toddlers: Are we measuring the same constructs? by Acar, Ibrahim H., Frohn, Scott, Prokasky, Amanda, Molfese, Victoria J., Bates, John E.

“…The study examines the concurrent and longitudinal associations between ratings‐based measures (parents, secondary caregivers, and observers) and…”
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Smoking during Pregnancy Affects Speech-Processing Ability in Newborn Infants by Alexandra P. F. Key, Melissa Ferguson, Molfese, Dennis L., Kelley Peach, Casey Lehman, Molfese, Victoria J.

“…Background: Tobacco smoking during pregnancy is known to adversely affect development of the central nervous system in babies of smoking mothers by restricting…”
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Infant Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Parenting Stress as Contributors to Infant Developmental Outcomes by Molfese, Victoria J., Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Beswick, Jennifer L., Jacobi-Vessels, Jill L., Ferguson, Melissa C., White, Jamie M.

“…This study examined contributions of maternal personality and infant temperament to infant vocabulary and cognitive development both directly and indirectly…”
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Child Sleep and Socioeconomic Context in the Development of Cognitive Abilities in Early Childhood by Hoyniak, Caroline P., Bates, John E., Staples, Angela D., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Molfese, Dennis L., Molfese, Victoria J.

“…Despite a robust literature examining the association between sleep problems and cognitive abilities in childhood, little is known about this association in…”
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Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool by Hoyniak, Caroline P., Bates, John E., McQuillan, Maureen E., Staples, Angela D., Petersen, Isaac T., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Molfese, Victoria J.

“…Background Sleep is thought to be important for behavioral and cognitive development. However, much of the prior research on sleep's role in…”
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Night-to-night variability in the bedtime routine predicts sleep in toddlers by Prokasky, Amanda, Fritz, Matthew, Molfese, Victoria J., Bates, John E.

“…•Toddlers experience inconsistent bedtime routines between weeknights and weekends.•Nightly differences in bedtime routines impact sleep on those…”
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Sustained Attention Across Toddlerhood: The Roles of Language and Sleep by McQuillan, Maureen E., Bates, John E., Staples, Angela D., Hoyniak, Caroline P., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Molfese, Victoria J.

“…The present study examined individual differences in the development of sustained attention across toddlerhood, as well as how these individual differences…”
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Heterotypic Continuity of Inhibitory Control in Early Childhood: Evidence From Four Widely Used Measures by Petersen, Isaac T., Bates, John E., McQuillan, Maureen E., Hoyniak, Caroline P., Staples, Angela D., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Molfese, Dennis L., Molfese, Victoria J.

“…Inhibitory control has been widely studied in association with social and academic adjustment. However, prior studies have generally overlooked the potential…”
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The Family Context of Toddler Sleep: Routines, Sleep Environment, and Emotional Security Induction in the Hour before Bedtime by Hoyniak, Caroline P., Bates, John E., McQuillan, Maureen E., Albert, Lauren E., Staples, Angela D., Molfese, Victoria J., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Deater-Deckard, Kirby

“…Family processes during the pre-bedtime period likely have a crucial influence on toddler sleep, but relatively little previous research has focused on family…”
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Strategies to Encourage Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Discussions and Brainstorming Promote Stronger Performance by Ryoo, Ji Hoon, Molfese, Victoria J, Brown, E. Todd

“…This longitudinal study examined the influence of prekindergarten teacher characteristics and classroom instructional processes during mathematical activities…”
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Temperament and Teacher-Child Conflict in Preschool: The Moderating Roles of Classroom Instructional and Emotional Support by Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Hawley, Leslie, Molfese, Victoria J., Tu, Xiaoqing, Prokasky, Amanda, Sirota, Kate

“…Research Findings: This study is an examination of (a) links between preschool children's temperament (effortful control, shyness, and anger) and teacher-child…”
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Relations Between Toddler Sleep Characteristics, Sleep Problems, and Temperament by Molfese, Victoria J., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Prokasky, Amanda, Champagne, Carly, Holmes, Molly, Molfese, Dennis L., Bates, John E.

“…Two sources of information (parent-reported sleep diaries and actigraph records) were used to investigate how toddler sleep characteristics (bed time/sleep…”
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Nonlinear Growth Mixture Models With Fractional Polynomials: An Illustration With Early Childhood Mathematics Ability by Ryoo, Ji Hoon, Konold, Timothy R., Long, Jeffrey D., Molfese, Victoria J., Zhou, Xin

“…Applications of growth mixture modeling have become widespread in the fields of medicine, public health, and the social sciences for modeling linear and…”
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A One-Hour Sleep Restriction Impacts Brain Processing in Young Children Across Tasks: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials by Molfese, Dennis L., Ivanenko, Anna, Key, Alexandra Fonaryova, Roman, Adrienne, Molfese, Victoria J., O'Brien, Louise M., Gozal, David, Kota, Srinivas, Hudac, Caitlin M.

“…The effect of mild sleep restriction on cognitive functioning in young children is unclear, yet sleep loss may impact children's abilities to attend to tasks…”
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Sleep and Negative Affect Across Toddlerhood in the Context of Stress by Sperber, Jessica F., McQuillan, Maureen E., Hoyniak, Caroline P., Staples, Angela D., Rudasill, Kathleen M., Molfese, Victoria J., Bates, John E.

“…Negative affect is associated with both high stress and poor sleep, but questions remain about the direction of these associations across time and interactions…”
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Teaching Preschoolers to Count: Effective Strategies for Achieving Early Mathematics Milestones by Jacobi-Vessels, Jill L., Todd Brown, E., Molfese, Victoria J., Do, Ahn

“…Attention to early childhood mathematics instructional strategies has sharpened due to the relatively poor mathematics performance of U.S. students in…”
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Executive function skills of 6–8year olds: Brain and behavioral evidence and implications for school achievement by Molfese, Victoria J., Molfese, Peter J., Molfese, Dennis L., Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Armstrong, Natalie, Starkey, Gillian

“…Academic and social success in school has been linked to children's self-regulation. This study investigated the assessment of the executive function (EF)…”
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Estimating Child Sleep From Parent Report of Time in Bed: Development and Evaluation of Adjustment Approaches by NELSON, Timothy D, LUNDAHL, Alyssa, MOLFESE, Dennis L, WAFORD, Rachel N, ROMAN, Adrienne, GOZAL, David, MOLFESE, Victoria J, FERGUSON, Melissa C

“…To develop and evaluate adjustment factors to convert parent-reported time in bed to an estimate of child sleep time consistent with objective measurement. A…”
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Executive function skills of 6–8 year olds: Brain and behavioral evidence and implications for school achievement by Molfese, Victoria J., Molfese, Peter J., Molfese, Dennis L., Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Armstrong, Natalie, Starkey, Gillian

“…Academic and social success in school has been linked to children’s self-regulation. This study investigated the assessment of the executive function (EF)…”
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Evidence of alphabetic knowledge in writing: connections to letter and word identification skills in preschool and kindergarten by Molfese, Victoria J., Beswick, Jennifer L., Jacobi-Vessels, Jill L., Armstrong, Natalie E., Culver, Brittany L., White, Jamie M., Ferguson, Melissa C., Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz, Molfese, Dennis L.

“…The writing skills of 286 children (157 female and 129 male) were studied by comparing name writing and letter writing scores from preschool to kindergarten…”
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