Publications

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  • Ollas-Skogster, D., Rautakoski, P., Bridgett, D. J., Kataja, E., Karlsson, H., Karlsson, L., and Nolvi, S. (In Press). Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self-regulation and early communicative development – evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.
  • Crouch, J., Bridgett, D. J., Milner, J., Cote, K., Lelakowska, G., Davila, A., McKay, E., and Shelby, S. (In Press). Prolonged infant crying: Caregiving quality and child physical abuse risk. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
  • Park, K. E., Chandler, L., Ahmad, M., Singh, A., Allam, O., Mets, E., Bridgett, D. J., Persing, J. A., and Alperovich, M. (In Press). Neurocognitive outcomes in deformational plagiocelphaly: Does morphologic severity impact on results? Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
  • Shelleby, E. C., Pittman, L. D., Bridgett, D. J., Keane, J., Zolinski, S., and Caradec, J. (2022). Associations between local COVID-19 case rates, pandemic-related financial stress and parent and child functioning. Journal of Family Psychology, 36, 932-942.
  • Wood, A. C., Momin, S. R., Senn, M. K., Bridget, D. J. (2022). Context matters: Preliminary evidence that the association between positive affect and adiposity in infancy varies in social vs. non-social situations. Nutrients, 14,
  • Gartstein, M. A., Seamon, Erich, Mattera, J. A., Enlow, M. B., Wright, R. J., Perez-Edgar, K., Buss, K., LoBue, V., Bell, M. A., Goodman, S. H., Spieker, S., Bridgett, D. J., Salisbury, A. L., Gunnar, M., Muzik, M., Stifter, C. A., Planalp, E. M., Mehy, S., Spelke, E., Lukowski, A. F., Groh, A., Lickenbrock, D. M., Santelli, R., Schudlich, T. D. R., Anzman-Frasca, S., Thrasher, C., Diaz, A., Dayton, C., Moding, K., Jordan, E. M., and Mliner, S. (2022). Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification base on infant temperament. PloS ONE, 17,
  • Nolvi, S., Tuulari, J. J., Pelto, J., Bridgett, D. J., Eskola, E., Lehtola, S. J., Hashempour, N., Korja, R., Kataja, E., Saunavaara, J., Parkkola, R., Lähdesmäki, T., Scheinin, N. M., Karlsson, L., Lewis, J. D., Fonov, V. S., Collins, D. L., and Karlsson, H. (2021). Newborn amygdala volumes and the development of self-regulation from early infancy to toddlerhood. Neuropsychology, 35, 285-299.
  • Chuang, C., Chaunzwa, T. L., Patel, A., Yang, J. F., Hashim, P. W., Travieso, R., Terner, J. S., Mayes, L. C., Duncan, C. C., Jane, J. A., Jane, J. A., Lin, K. Y., Bridgett, D. J., and Persing, J. A. (2021). The impact of reoperation on long-term neurocognitive outcomes in sagittal synostosis. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 32, 58-61.
  • Crouch, J. L., Davila, A. L., Holzman, J. B., Hiraoka, R., Rutledge, E., Bridgett, D. J., Milner, J. S., and Skowronski, J. J. (2021). Perceived executive functioning in parents at risk for child physical abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 8874-8884.
  • Martin, R. C. B., Bridgett, D. J., Mayes, L. C., and Rutherford, H. J. V. (2020). Maternal working memory, emotion regulation, and responding to infant distress. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 71, 101202.
  • Bridgett, D. J. (2020). Editorial: Out of control: More evidence that both family ecology and genetic influences contribute to the origins of poor self-control among adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59, 222-224.
  • Smith, C. L., and Bridgett, D. J. (Eds.). (2020). Moving forward in the study of temperament and early educational outcomes: Mediating and moderating factors. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis. NOTE: This book originated as a journal special issue, which the publisher republished as edited book as a part of their book series, Special Issues as Books.
  • Petrenko, A., Rosinski, L., McKay, E. R., Kanya, M. J., and Bridgett, D. J. (2019). Effects of infant negative affect and contextual factors on infant regulatory capacity: The moderating role of infant sex. Infant and Child Development, 28,
  • Lelakowska, G., Kanya, M. J., Balassone, B., Savoree, S., Boddy, L. E., Power, T. G., and Bridgett, D. J. (2019). Toddlers’ impulsivity, inhibitory control, and maternal eating-related supervision in relation to toddler BMI: Direct and interactive effects. Appetite, 142,
  • Nolvi, S., Bridgett, D. J., Korja, R., Kataja, E., Niina, J., Karlsson, H., and Karlsson, L. (2019). Trajectories of maternal pre- and postnatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and infant fear: Moderation by infant sex. Journal of Affective Disorders, 257, 589-597.
  • McKay, E. R., Rosinski, L., Rutherford, H. J. V., Mayes, L. C., and Bridgett, D. J. (2019). Maternal positive responses to a distressed infant simulator predict subsequent negative affect in infants. Infant Behavior and Development (Special Section), 56,
  • Bridgett, D.J., Ganiban, J.M., Neiderhiser, J.M., Natsuaki, M.N., Shaw, D.S., Reiss, D., and Leve, L.D. (2018). Contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting to children’s self-regulation: Evidence from an adoption study. Developmental Science, e12692.
  • Laake, L.M., and Bridgett, D.J. (2018). Early language development in context: Interactions between infant temperament and parenting characteristics. Early Education and Development, 29, 730-746.
  • Holzman, J.B., Burt, N.M., Edwards, E.S., Rosinski, L.D., and Bridgett, D.J., (2018). Negative (but not positive) parenting interacts with infant negative affect to predict infant approach: Evidence of diathesis-stress. Infancy, 23, 471-480.
  • Holzman, J. B., and Bridgett, D. J. (2017). Heart rate variability indices as bio-markers of top-down self-regulatory mechanisms: A meta-analytic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 74, 233-255.
  • Nolvi, S., Uusitupa, H.M., Bridgett, D.J., Pesonen, H., Aatsinki, A.K., Kataja, E.L., Korja, R., Karlsson, H., and Karlsson, L. (2017). Human milk cortisol concentration predicts experimentally induced infant fear reactivity: Moderation by infant sex. Developmental Science,
  • Gartstein, M. A., Prokasky, A., Bell, M. A., Calkins, S., Bridgett, D. J., Braungart-Rieker, J., Leerkes, E., Cheatham, C., Eiden, R. D., Mize, K. D., Jones, N. A., Mireault, G., and Seamon, E. (2017). Latent profile and cluster analysis of infant temperament: Comparison across person-centered approaches. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1811-1825.
  • Nolvi, S., Pesonen, H., Bridgett, D. J., Riikka, K., Eeva-Leena, K., Karlsson, H., and Karlsson, L. (2016). Infant sex moderates the effects of maternal pre- and postnatal stress on executive functioning at 8 months of age. Infancy,23, 194-210.
  • Bridgett, D. J., Kanya, M. J., Rutherford, H. J. V., and Mayes, L. C. (2017). Maternal executive functioning as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of parenting: Preliminary evidence. Journal of Family Psychology (Special Section), 31, 19-29.
  • Edwards, E. S., Holzman, J. B., Burt, N. M., Rutherford, H.J.V., Mayes, L. C., and Bridgett, D. J. (2017). Maternal emotion regulation strategies, internalizing problems and infant negative affect. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 48, 59-68.
  • Nolvi, S., Karlsson, L., Bridgett, D.J., Korja, R., Huizink, A.C., Kataja, E., and Karlsson, H. (2016). Maternal prenatal stress and infant emotional reactivity six months postpartum. Journal of Affective Disorders, 199, 163-170.
  • Nolvi, S., Karlsson, L., Bridgett, D.J., Pajulo, M., Tolvanen, M., and Karlsson, H. (2016). Maternal postnatal depressive and anxiety symptoms, infant temperament, and mother-infant bonding. Infant Behavior and Development, 43, 13-23.
  • Burt, N.M., Boddy, L.E., and Bridgett, D. J. (2015). Temperament contributions to eating disorder symptoms in emerging adulthood: Additive and Interactive Effects. Eating Behaviors, 18, 30-35.
  • Bridgett, D. J., Burt, N. M., Edwards, E. S., and Deater-Deckard, K. (2015). Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Regulation: A Multidisciplinary Review and Integrative Conceptual Framework. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 602-654.
  • Lilly, M. M., London, M. J., and Bridgett, D. J. (2014). Using SEM to examine emotion regulation and revictimization in predicting PTSD symptoms among childhood abuse survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6, 644-651.
  • Laake, L. M., and Bridgett, D. J. (2014). Happy babies, chatty toddlers: Infant positive affect facilitates early expressive, but not receptive language. Infant Behavior and Development, 37, 39-32.
  • Potapova, N. V., Gartstein, M. A., and Bridgett, D. J. (2014). Paternal influences on infant temperament: Effects of father internalizing problems, parenting-related stress, and temperament. Infant Behavior and Development, 37, 105-110.
  • Rutherford, H. J. V., Goldberg, B., Luyten, P., Bridgett, D. J., and Mayes, L. C. (2013). Parental reflective functioning is associated with tolerance of infant distress but not general distress: Evidence for a specific relationship using a simulated baby paradigm.Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 635-641.
  • Oddi, K. B., Murdock, K., Vadnais, S., Bridgett, D. J., and Gartstein, M. A. (2013). Maternal and infant temperament characteristics as contributors to parenting stress in the first year postpartum. Infant and Child Development, 22, 553-579.
  • Bridgett, D. J., Burt, N. M., Laake, L. M., and Oddi, K. B (2013). Maternal self-regulation, relationship adjustment, and home chaos: Contributions to infant negative emotionality. Infant Behavior and Development, 36,534-547.
  • Bridgett, D. J., Laake, L., Gartstein, M. A., and Dorn, D.(2013). Development of infant positive emotionality: The contribution of maternal characteristics and effects on subsequent parenting. Infant and Child Development, 22, 362-382.
  • Leve, L. D., DeGarmo, D. S., Bridgett, D. J., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Harold, G.T., Natsuaki, M., and Reiss, D. (2013). Using an adoption design to separate genetic, prenatal and temperament influences on toddler executive function. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1045-1057.

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