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Attachment and Emotion
Borelli, J.L., Russo, L.N., Arreola, J., Cervantes, B., Hecht, H.K., Leal, F., Montiel, G., Paredes, P., & Guerra, N. (in press). Más Fuertes Juntos: Attachment Relationship Quality, but not Demographic Risk, Predicts Psychopathology in Latinx Mother-Youth Dyads. Journal of Community Psychology.
Borelli, J.L., Smiley, P.A., Kerr, M.L., *Hong, K., *Hecht, H.K., *Blackard, M.B., *Falasiri, E., *Cervantes, B.R., & *Bond, D.K. (2020). Relational Savoring: An Attachment-based Approach to Promoting Interpersonal Flourishing. Psychotherapy. doi: 10.1037/pst0000284
Borelli, J.L., Stern. J.A., *Marvin, M. J., Smiley, P.A., *Pettit, C., & *Samudio, M. (2020). Reflective Functioning and Empathy Among Mothers of School-aged Children: Charting the Space Between. Emotion. doi.org/10.1037/emo0000747
Borelli, J.L., Shai, D., *Yaakobi, S., *Levit-Binnun N., & Golland, Y. (2019). Interpersonal Physiological Regulation During Couple Support Interactions: Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Emotional Support. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13443
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
*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., 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
*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
*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., *Rasmussen, H.F., *Burkhart, M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2014). Relational Savoring in Long Distance Romantic Relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1, 1-26. doi: 10.1177/0265407514558960
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
Arbel, R., Smiley, P.A., & Borelli, J.L. (2021). Charting the Physiological Time Course of Help Seeking in Late Childhood: Patterns of Individual Difference. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104989.
Bizzi, F., Charpentier, M. S., Ensink, K., Cavanna, D., & Borelli, J. (in press). Does children’s mentalizing mediate the role of attachment and psychological maladjustment in middle childhood?Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01701-9
Borelli, J.L., Ensink, K., Gillespie, M.L., *Falasiri, E., Bernazzani, O., Fonagy, P., & Berthelot, N. (in press). Mothers’ Self-focused Reflective Functioning Interacts with Childhood Experiences of Rejection to Predict Current Romantic Relationship Quality and Parenting Behavior. Family Process. doi: 10.1111/famp.12603
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
Parenting and Emotion
Smiley, P.A., Partington, L.C., Cochran, C.R., & Borelli, J.L. (2020). Autonomy-Restrictive Socialization of Anger: Associations with School-Aged Children’s Physiology, Trait Anxiety, State Distress, and Relationship Closeness. Developmental Psychobiology. doi: 10.1002/dev.21975
Borelli, J.L., Slade, A., *Pettit, C., & Shai, D. (in press). I ‘Get’ You, Babe: Reflective Functioning in Partners Transitioning to Parenthood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. doi: 10.1177/0265407520905641
Cho, B., Woods-Jaeger, B., & Borelli, J. L. (in press). Parenting stress moderates the relation between parental trauma exposure and child anxiety symptoms. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.
Delgadillo, D.*, Boparai, S.*, Pressman, P., Goldstein, A.*, Jean-François Bureau, J., Schmiedel, S., Backer, M., Broekman, B., Tan, K., Chong, Y., Chen, H., Zalta, A., Meaney, M., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Tsotsi, S., & Borelli, J.L. (in press). Maternal Expressions of Positive Emotion for Children Predicts Children’s Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Surrounding Stress. Developmental Psychobiology. doi: 10.1002/dev.22082
Guo, Y., Spieker, S.J., & Borelli, J.L. (in press). Positive Emotion Co-Regulation Among Mother-Preschooler Dyads Completing the Strange Situation: Relations to Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: /10.1007/s10826-020-01812-3
Rezeppa, T., Okuno, H., Qasmieh, N., Racz, S. J., Borelli, J.L., De Los Reyes, A. (in press). Unfamiliar untrained observers’ ratings of adolescent safety behaviors within social interactions with unfamiliar peer confederates. Behavior Therapy
Borelli, J.L. (2019). The past is present: Responses to infant crying among mothers high in attachment anxiety. Parenting: Science and Practice. doi:10.1080/15295192.2019.1555417
Borelli, J.L., *Lai, J., Smiley, P.A., Kerr, M.L., Buttitta, K., *Hecht, H.K., & *Rasmussen, H.F., (in press). Higher Maternal Reflective Functioning is Associated with Toddlers’ Adaptive Emotion Regulation. Infant Mental Health Journal. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21904.
*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
