Representative Publications

(* indicates student/advisee author)

Attachment and Emotion

*River, L.M., Borelli, J. L., & Nelson-Coffey, S. K. (in press). Tolerance of infant distress among working parents: Examining the roles of attachment anxiety and work-family conflict. Parenting: Science & Practice.

Borelli, J.L., Brugnera, A., Zarbo, C., Rabboni, M., Bondi, E., Tasca, G., & Compare, A. (2018). Attachment Comes of Age: Adolescents’ Narrative Coherence and Reflective Functioning Predict Wellbeing in Emerging Adulthood. Attachment and Human Development. doi:10.1080/14616734.2018.1479870

Borelli, J. L., Sbarra, D.A., & Mehl, M. (2018). Convergence of naïve observer- and participant-reported ratings of attachment to a former partner: When we should be me. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0265407517749755

Suchman, N. E., DeCoste, C., Borelli, J. L., & McMahon, T. (2018) Does improvement in maternal attachment representations predict greater maternal sensitivity, child attachment security and lower rates of relapse to substance use? A second test of Mothering from the Inside Out treatment mechanisms. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 85, 21-30. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2017.11.00

*Bond, D. K. & Borelli, J. L. (2017). Maternal attachment insecurity and poorer proficiency savoring memories with their children: The mediating role of rumination. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37, 1007-1030. doi:10.1177/0265407516664995

Borelli, J. L., *Palmer, A., *Vanwoerden, S., & Sharp, C. (2017). Convergence in reports of adolescents’ psychopathology: A focus on disorganized attachment and reflective functioning. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/15374416.2017.1399400

Borelli, J. L., *Burkhart, M., *Rasmussen, H. F., *Brody, R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2017). Secure base script content explains the association between attachment avoidance and emotion-related constructs in parents of young children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 38, 210-225. doi:10.1002/imhj.21632

Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P.A., *Rasmussen, H.F., *Gómez, A, *Seaman, L.C., & Nurmi, E. L. (2017). Interactive Effects of Attachment and FKBP5 Genotype on School-aged Children’s Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms. Behavioural Brain Research. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.035

Borelli, J. L., *Somers, J., *West, J. L., *Coffey, J. K., De Los Reyes, A., & Shmueli-Goetz, Y. (2016). Associations Between Attachment Narratives and Self-Report Measures of Attachment in Middle Childhood: Extending Evidence for the Validity of the Child Attachment Interview. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0310-8

Borelli, J. L., *Somers, J., *West, J. L., *Coffey, J. K., *Salim, R.., & Shmueli-Goetz, Y. (2016). Shedding Light on the Specificity of School-aged Children’s Attachment Narratives. Attachment and Human Development. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2015.1134605

Borelli, J.L., *St. John, H.K., *Cho, E., & Suchman, N.E. (2016). Reflective Functioning in Parents of School-aged Children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. doi: 10.1037/ort000014115.

Borelli, J.L., *Vazquez, L., *Rasmussen, H.F., Teachanarong, & Smiley. P.A. (2016). Attachment and Maternal Sensitivity in Middle Childhood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. doi: 10.1177/0265407515616280

*Stern, J. A., Borelli, J.L., & Smiley, P. (2015). Assessing Parental Empathy: A Role for Parent Empathy in Child Attachment. Attachment and Human Development, 17, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2014.969749

Borelli, J. L., Sbarra, D. A., *Randall, A. K., *Snavely, J. E., McMakin, D. L., *Coffey, J.K., *Ruiz, S. K., *Wang, B. A., & *Chung, S. Y. (2014). With or Without You: Preliminary Evidence that Attachment Avoidance Predicts Non-Deployed Spouses’ Reactions to Relationship Challenges During Deployment. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 45, 478-487. doi: 10.1037/a0037780

Borelli, J.L., David, D.H., Crowley, M.C., *Snavely, J.E., & Mayes, L.C. (2013). Dismissing Children’s Perceptions of their Emotional Experience and Parental Care: Preliminary Evidence of Positive Bias. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 44, 70-88. doi:10.1007/s10578-012-0310-5

Borelli, J.L., Crowley, M.J., David, D.H., Anderson, G.M., & Mayes, L.C. (2010). Attachment and Emotion in School-aged Children. Emotion, 10, 475-485. doi: 10.1037/a0018490

Relational and Emotional Predictors of Children’s Internalizing Symptoms

Somers, J.A., Borelli, J. L., & Hilt, L.M. (in press). Depressive symptoms, rumination, and emotion reactivity among youth: Moderation by gender. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Borelli, J. L., *Pedroza, M., & *Gaskin, G. E , Smiley, P.A., *Kernick, C., *Brachman, A., & Mehl, M. (2018). School-aged Children’s Cognitive Interdependence as a Prospective Link between their Depressive Symptoms and Physiological Stress Reactivity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2018.37.5.325

*Boparai, S., Borelli, J. L., *Partington, L., Smiley, P.A., *Jarvik, E., *Rasmussen, H.F., *Seaman, L.C., & Nurmi, E. (in press). Interaction between the Opioid Receptor OPRM1 Gene and Mother-Child Language Style Matching Prospectively Predicts Children’s Separation Anxiety Disorder Symptoms. Research in Developmental Disabilities. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.03.002

Borelli, J. L., *Ho, L., & *Epps, L. (2018). School-aged children’s psychobiological divergence as a prospective predictor of health risk behaviors in adolescence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27, 47-58. doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0870-x

*Perrone, L.P., Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P.A., & *Rasmussen, H.F, & Hilt, L.M. (2016). Children’s Spontaneous Attributions as a Mediator of the Association between Parental Conditional Regard and Children’s Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-016-0495-5

Borelli, J. L., *Rasmussen, H.F., *St. John, H.K., *West, J.L., & Piacentini, J. C. (2015). Parent Reactivity and the Link between Parent and Child Anxiety Symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24, 3130-3144. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0117-7

Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P., *Bond, D. K., *Buttitta, K.V., *DeMueles, M., *Perrone, L., *Welindt, N., *Rasmussen, H.F., & *West, J.L. (2015). Parental Anxiety Prospectively Predicts Fearful Children’s Physiological Recovery from Stress. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46, 774-785. doi: 10.1007/s10578-014-0519-6

*Somers, J.A., Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P.A., *West, J.L., & Hilt, L.M. (2015). Concurrent and Prospective Associations between Emotion Reactivity and Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37, 692-704. doi: 10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0

Borelli, J. L., Hilt, L.M., *West, J., *Gonzalez, M., & Weekes, N. (2014). School-aged Children’s Depressive Rumination is Associated with Their Reactivity to Sadness but not Fear. Journal of Clinical Adolescent and Child Psychology, 43, 799-812. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2013.814542

Borelli, J. L., Margolin, G., & *Rasmussen, H.F. (2014). Parental Overcontrol as a Mechanism Explaining the Longitudinal Association between Parent and Child Anxiety. Journal of Child and Family Studies 24,1559-1574. doi: 10.1007/s10826-014-9960-1

Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D.A., Crowley, M. J., & Mayes, L.C. (2011). Mood Symptoms and Emotional Responsiveness to Threat in School-aged Children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2011.546047

Michalska, K., *Zhou, E., & Borelli, J.L. (2022). School-aged Children with Higher Anxiety Symptoms Show Greater Correspondence of Subjective Negative Emotions and Autonomic Arousal. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105451

Parenting and Emotion

*Partington, L., Borelli, J. L., Smiley, P.A., *Jarvik, E., *Rasmussen, H.F., *Seaman, L.C., & Nurmi, E. (in press). Parental Overcontrol x OPRM1 Genotype Interaction Predicts School-aged Children’s Sympathetic Nervous System Activation in Response to Performance Challenge. Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Borelli, J.L., Ensink, K., Hong, K., Sereno, A.T., Drury, R., & Fonagy, P. (2018). Reflective functioning predicts lower cardiovascular reactivity in children. Frontiers in Medicine. doi: 10/3387/fmed.2018.00196

Borelli, J. L., *Nelson-Coffey, S. K., *River, L. M., Birken, S. A., & Moss-Racusin, C. (2017). Bringing work home: Gender differences in work-family guilt among parents of toddlers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 1734-1745. doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0693-9

Borelli, J. L., *Nelson-Coffey, S. K., *River, L., Birken, S. A., & Moss-Racusin, C. (2017). Gender differences in work-family guilt in parents of young children. Sex Roles, 76, 356-368. doi:10.1007/s11199-016-0579-0

Borelli, J. L., *Burkhart, M., *Rasmussen, H. F., Smiley, P. A., & Hellemann, G. (2017). Children’s and mothers’ cardiovascular reactivity to a standardized laboratory stressor: Unique relations with maternal anxiety and overcontrol. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/emo0000320

Borelli, J. L., *Hong, K., *Rasmussen, H. F., & Smiley, P. A. (2017). Reflective functioning, physiological reactivity, and overcontrol in mothers: Links with school-aged children’s reflective functioning. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1680-1693. doi:10.1037/dev0000371

Borelli, J.L., *Nelson, S.K., *River, L., Birken, S.A., & Moss-Racusin, C. (2017). Gender Differences in Work-family Guilt in Parents of Young Children. Sex Roles. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0579-0.

Borelli, J. L., *Ramsook, K. A., Smiley, P., *Bond, D. K., *West, J.L., & *Buttitta, K.V. (2016). Language Matching Among Mother-Child Dyads. Social Development. doi: 10.1111/sode.12200

*Rasmussen, H. F., Borelli, J.L., DeCoste, C., & Suchman, N. E. (2016). A Longitudinal Examination of Toddlers’ Behavioral Cues as a Function of Substance-Abusing Mothers’ Disengagement. Infant Mental Health Journal. doi:10.1002/imhj.21552

*River, L., Borelli, J.L., & Nelson, S.K. (2016). Examining Parents’ Attachment Styles and Internalizing Symptoms as Predictors of Caregiving Emotion and Behavior. Infant Mental Health Journal. doi:10.1002/imhj.21587

*Sichko, S., Borelli, J.L., *Rasmussen, H.F., Smiley, P. (2016). Relational Closeness Moderates the Association between Maternal Overcontrol and Children’s Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology. doi: 10.1037/fam0000155

Borelli, J.L., *West, J.L., DeCoste, C., & Suchman, N.E. (2012). Emotionally Avoidant Language in the Parenting Interviews of Substance-dependent Mothers: Associations with Reflective Functioning, Recent Substance Use, and Parenting Behavior. Infant Mental Health Journal, 33, 506-519. doi:10.1002/imhj.21340

Intervention Research

Borelli, J. L., *Sohn, L., *Wang, B., *Hong, K., DeCoste, C., & Suchman, N.E. (2018). Therapist-client language matching: Initial promise as a measure of therapist-client relationship quality. Psychoanalytic Psychology. doi: /10.1037/pap0000177

Borelli, J.L., Cervantes, B. R., Hecht, H.K., Marquez, C., DePrado, R., Torres, G., Robles, A., Chirinos, N., Leal, F., Montiel, G. I., Pedroza, M., & Guerra, N. (2021). Barreras y Soluciones: Lessons Learned from Integrating Research-based Clinical Techniques into a Community Agency Serving Low-income Latinx Immigrant Families. Family Process. doi: 10.1111/famp.12712

Borelli, J.L., Kerr, M.L., Smiley, P.A., *Rasmussen, H.F., *Hecht, H., K., & Campos, B. (2022). Relational Savoring Intervention: Positive Impacts for Mothers and Evidence of Cultural Compatibility for Latinas. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001102

Suchman, N. E., DeCoste, C. L., McMahon, T. J., Dalton, R., Mayes, L. C., & Borelli, J. L. (2017). Mothering from the Inside Out: Results of a second randomized clinical trial testing a mentalization-based intervention for mothers in addiction treatment. Development & Psychopathology, 29, 617-636. doi:10.1017/S0954579417000220

*Burkhart, M., Borelli, J. L., *Rasmussen, H. F., & Sbarra, D. A. (2015). Cherish the good times: Relational savoring in parents of infants and toddlers. Personal Relationships, 22, 692-711. doi: 10.1111/pere.12104

Borelli, J. L., *Rasmussen, H. F., *Burkhart, M., & Sbarra, D. A. (2014). Relational savoring in long distance romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 1083-1108. doi:10.1177/0265407514558960

Borelli, J.L., *Russo, L., *Arreola, A., *Cervantes, B., *Marquez, C., Montiel, G., *Avalos, V., *Carballo, J., *Garcia, J., *Bhatt, I., Torres, G., Leal, F., & Guerra, N. (2022). Saving a Seat at the Table for Community Members: Co-Creating an Attachment-Based Intervention for Low-Income Latinx Parent-Youth Dyads Using a Promotor/a Model. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.598