This longitudinal study followed children from preschool to adolescence and documented the effects of maternal representations regarding the relationship with the child on children's competence in diverse contexts.

Joint work of Efrat Sher-Censor and Tuppett Yates, the Adversity and Adaptation Lab, UC Riverside, CA, USA.

Funding: The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD] and The US National Science Foundation [NSF].

Related Publications:

Sher-Censor, E., Grey, K., & Yates, M. T. (2013). The intergenerational congruence of narrative affective content and narrative coherence. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 340-348. View

Sher-Censor, E. & Yates, M. T. (2015). Mothers’ Expressed Emotion and narrative coherence: Associations with preschoolers’ behavior problems in a multiethnic sample. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24, 1392-1405. View

Sher-Censor E. (2015). Five Minute Speech Sample in developmental research: A review. Developmental Review, 36, 127-155. View

Khafi, T., Yates, T. M., & Sher-Censor, E. (2015). The meaning of Emotional Overinvolvement in early development: Prospective relations with child behavior problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 585-594. View

Sher-Censor, E., Khafi, T., & Yates, T. M. (2016). Preschoolers' self-regulation moderates relations between mothers’ representations and children's adjustment to school. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1793-1804. View

Sher-Censor, E. (2019). Assessing the coherence of parents’ short narratives regarding their child using the Five Minute Speech Sample Procedure. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 151, e60025. View