Nancy L. McElwain

2.8k total citations
63 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Nancy L. McElwain is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy L. McElwain has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Clinical Psychology, 40 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Nancy L. McElwain's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (44 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (33 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (14 papers). Nancy L. McElwain is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (44 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (33 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (14 papers). Nancy L. McElwain collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Cameroon. Nancy L. McElwain's co-authors include Brenda L. Volling, Cathryn Booth‐LaForce, Amy G. Halberstadt, Paul C. Notaro, Carla Herrera, Maria S. Wong, Jennifer Engle, Alison L. Miller, Ashley Holland and Martha J. Cox and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Nancy L. McElwain

60 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers

Nancy L. McElwain
D.C. van den Boom Netherlands
Amanda W. Harrist United States
Cynthia L. Smith United States
Katherine C. Coy United States
Miles Gilliom United States
Joan T. D. Suwalsky United States
Russell A. Isabella United States
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All Works

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Islam, Bashima, Nancy L. McElwain, Maria I. Davila, et al.. (2024). Preliminary Technical Validation of LittleBeats™: A Multimodal Sensing Platform to Capture Cardiac Physiology, Motion, and Vocalizations. Sensors. 24(3). 901–901. 2 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L., et al.. (2024). Maternal autonomy support and intrusive control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ agency and defeat.. Developmental Psychology. 60(6). 1016–1027. 3 indexed citations
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Holland, Ashley, et al.. (2024). Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes: Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 54(3). 736–749.
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Hu, Yannan, Xiaomei Li, Ryan J. Larsen, et al.. (2023). Associations between infant amygdala functional connectivity and social engagement following a stressor: A preliminary investigation. Developmental Science. 27(1). e13418–e13418. 4 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L., et al.. (2023). Evaluating Users’ Experiences of a Child Multimodal Wearable Device: Mixed Methods Approach. JMIR Human Factors. 11. e49316–e49316. 9 indexed citations
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Hasegawa‐Johnson, Mark, et al.. (2023). Towards Robust Family-Infant Audio Analysis Based on Unsupervised Pretraining of Wav2vec 2.0 on Large-Scale Unlabeled Family Audio. PubMed. 2023. 1035–1039. 6 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L., et al.. (2022). Zoom, Zoom, Baby! Assessing Mother-Infant Interaction During the Still Face Paradigm and Infant Language Development via a Virtual Visit Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 734492–734492. 8 indexed citations
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McCormick, Ethan M., et al.. (2020). Maternal emotion socialization in early childhood predicts adolescents’ amygdala-vmPFC functional connectivity to emotion faces.. Developmental Psychology. 56(3). 503–515. 16 indexed citations
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Hu, Yannan, et al.. (2020). Direct and indirect pathways from maternal and paternal empathy to young children’s socioemotional functioning.. Journal of Family Psychology. 34(7). 825–835. 9 indexed citations
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Berry, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Dynamic bidirectional associations in negative behavior: Mother–toddler interaction during a snack delay.. Developmental Psychology. 55(6). 1191–1198. 3 indexed citations
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Engle, Jennifer, et al.. (2015). Fostering parents’ emotion regulation through a sibling-focused experimental intervention.. Journal of Family Psychology. 29(3). 458–468. 9 indexed citations
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Groh, Ashley M., et al.. (2014). Mothers’ electrophysiological, subjective, and observed emotional responding to infant crying: The role of secure base script knowledge. Development and Psychopathology. 27(4pt1). 1237–1250. 19 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L., et al.. (2014). Maternal dispositional empathy and electrodermal reactivity: Interactive contributions to maternal sensitivity with toddler-aged children.. Journal of Family Psychology. 28(4). 505–515. 19 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L., Ashley Holland, Jennifer Engle, & Brian G. Ogolsky. (2014). Getting acquainted: Actor and partner effects of attachment and temperament on young children’s peer behavior.. Developmental Psychology. 50(6). 1757–1770. 4 indexed citations
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Engle, Jennifer & Nancy L. McElwain. (2013). Parental depressive symptoms and marital intimacy at 4.5 years: Joint contributions to mother–child and father–child interaction at 6.5 years.. Developmental Psychology. 49(12). 2225–2235. 9 indexed citations
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Engle, Jennifer, et al.. (2010). Presence and quality of kindergarten children's friendships: concurrent and longitudinal associations with child adjustment in the early school years. Infant and Child Development. 20(4). 365–386. 34 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L. & Cathryn Booth‐LaForce. (2006). Maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress as predictors of infant-mother attachment security.. Journal of Family Psychology. 20(2). 247–255. 255 indexed citations
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McElwain, Nancy L. & Brenda L. Volling. (2005). Preschool children's interactions with friends and older siblings: relationship specificity and joint contributions to problem behavior.. Journal of Family Psychology. 19(4). 486–496. 92 indexed citations
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Macfie, Jenny, Nancy L. McElwain, Renate Houts, & Martha J. Cox. (2005). Intergenerational transmission of role reversal between parent and child: Dyadic and family systems internal working models. Attachment & Human Development. 7(1). 51–65. 66 indexed citations

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