Northern Illinois University
Families and Development in Context Lab
Department of Psychology

Research Interests

Generally, my research interests are related to contextual factors that influence child and adolescent academic, socioemotional, and behavioral outcomes. Currently, I am interested in research related to parenting, low-income families, poverty, coparenting, parenting stress, cultural contexts, and youth outcomes.

Publications

Pittman, L. D., Cutright, N. L., McNeela, L. M., Awada, S., Pabis, J. M., Kochanova, K., and Shelleby, E. (2019). Coping strategies and psychological symptoms among children on St. Thomas in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 151-160. doi:10.1002/jts.22471

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., and Pabis, J. M. (2019, manuscript submitted for publication). Parental stress, parenting, and externalizing problems: Indirect associations among parents of adolescents.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L.D., and McNeela, L. (In Progress). Parenting stress and child externalizing and internalizing problems among low-income families: Transactional associations.

Kochanova, K. (2014). Parenting stress among biological, adoptive, foster, and guardian parents of children with prenatal and/or environmental substance exposure. Proceedings of the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, 851-861.

Poster Presentations

Flannery, A. J., Pittman, L. D., Miles, A., Padgett, E. E., Kochanova, K., and McNeela, L. (2018, April). Does co-parenting within intact families mediate the association between marital conflict and adolescent behavioral problems? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, MN.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., and Pabis, J. (2018, April). Parenting stress, parenting, and externalizing problems: Indirect associations among parents of adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, MN.

McNeela, L., Awada, S., Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., and Flannery, A. J. (2018, April). Indirect pathways between maternal anxiety and adolescent outcomes through mother-child relationship and home environment. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Minneapolis, MN.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., McNeela, L., and Flannery, A. J. (2017, April). Parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing problems among low-income families: Transactional associations. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, TX.

Flannery, A. J., Padgett, E. E., Kochanova, K., Ioffe, M., and Pittman, L. D. (2016, September). Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and poor academic adjustment to college: The potential mediating role of emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the National Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (NCCCAP), Lawrence, KS.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., Stewart, E. E. (2016, May). Parenting stress, cumulative risk, and children's internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of low-income families. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Ioffe, M., Flannery, A. J., Kochanova, K., Stewart, E. E. and Pittman, L. D. (2016, April). Ethnic/racial discrimination and psychological maladjustment: The buffering role of gender and parent-adolescent relationships. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

Pittman, L. D., Kochanova, K., Stewart, E. E., Flannery, A. J., and Ioffe, M. (2016, April). Discrimination, racial/ethnic identity and psychological distress: Patterns across Latino and African American adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD.

Oral Presentations

Kochanova, K. (2014, May). Family differences in parenting stress in parents of children with substance exposure. Invited Psi Chi speaker at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL.

Kochanova, K. (2014, May). Family differences in parenting stress in parents of children with substance exposure. Oral presentation at Elmhurst College’s 12^th Annual Research and Performance Showcase, Elmhurst, IL.