Publications and Presentations

Publications
Presentations

Publications

Journal Articles

Pittman, L.D., Brendle, C. R. and Ioffe, M. (2022). Quality and quantity of grandparent contact: Associations with late adolescents’ psychological adjustment. Journal of Family Issues. Advanced online publication.

Shelleby, E., Pittman, L. D., Bridgett, D. J., Keane, J., Zolinksi, S. and Caradec, J. (2022). Associations between COVID-19 pandemic stress and financial concerns and parent and child functioning. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(6), 932–942.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D. and Pabis, J. (2021). Parenting stress, parenting, and adolescent externalizing problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 2141-2154.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D. and McNeela, L. (2021). Parenting stress and child internalizing and externalizing problems among low-income families: Transactional associations. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53(1), 76-88.

Ioffe, M., Pittman, L. D., Kochanova, K and Pabis, J. M. (2020). Parent-adolescent communication influences on anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 1716-1730. doi: 10.1007/s10964-020-01259-1

Pittman, L. D., Cutright, N. H., McNeela, L., Awada, S., Pabis, J. and Shelleby, L. (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.

Cutright, N. H., Padgett, E. E., Awada, S., Pabis, J. and Pittman, L. D. (2019). The role of mindfulness in psychological outcomes for children following hurricane exposure. Mindfulness, 10, 1760-1767.

Murdock, K. W., Pittman, L. D. and Fagundes, C. P. (2018). Maternal and paternal predictors of child depressive symptoms: An actor-partner interdependence framework. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27, 559-568.

Keeports, C. & Pittman, L. D. (2017). I wish my parents would stop arguing! The impact of interparental conflict on young adults. Journal of Family Issues, 38, 839-857.

Gummadam, P., Pittman, L. D. and Ioffe, M. (2015). Ethnic identity, school belonging, and psychological functioning among ethnic minority college students. Journal of Experimental Education, 84, 289-306.

London, M., Lilly, M. and Pittman, L.D. (2015). Attachment as a mediator between community violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms among adolescents with a history of maltreatment. Child Abuse and Neglect, 42,1-9.

Stevens, E., Bardeen, J. R., Pittman, L. D. and Lovejoy, M. C. (2015). The interactive effect of individual differences in goal strength and self-discrepancies: Examining negative affective outcomes. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 34, 161-180.

Stevens, E. N., Lovejoy, M. C. and Pittman, L. D. (2014). Understanding the relationship between actual:ideal discrepancies and depressive symptoms: A developmental examination Journal of Adolescence, 37, 612-621.

Stevens, E. N., Holmberg, N. J., Lovejoy, M. C. and Pittman, L. D. (2013). When do self-discrepancies predict negative emotions? Exploring formal operational thought and abstract reasoning skills as moderators. Cognition and Emotion. 28, 707-716.

Neese, A. L., Pittman, L. D. and Hunemorder, R. (2013). Depressive symptoms and somatic complaints among Zambian adolescents: Associations with stress and coping. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23, 118-127.

Pittman, L. D. and Boswell, M. K. (2008). Low-income multigenerational households: Variation in family functioning by mothers’ age and race/ethnicity. Journal of Family Issues, 29, 851-881. Pittman, L. D. and Richmond, A. (2008). University belonging, friendship quality, and psychological adjustment during the transition to college. Journal of Experimental Education, 76, 343-361.

Coley, R. L., Lohman, B., Votruba-Drzal, E., Pittman, L. D. and Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2007). Maternal functioning, time and money: The world of work and welfare. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 721-741.

Pittman, L. D. (2007). Grandmothers’ involvement among young adolescents growing up in poverty. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17, 89-116.

Pittman, L. D. and Boswell, M. K. (2007). The role of grandmothers in the lives of preschoolers growing up in urban poverty. Applied Developmental Science, 11, 20-42.

Pittman, L. D. and Richmond, A. (2007). Academic and psychological functioning in late adolescence: The importance of school belonging. The Journal of Experimental Education, 75, 270-290.

Lohman, B. J., Pittman, L. D., Chase-Lansdale, P. L. and Coley, R. L. (2004). Welfare history, sanctions, and developmental outcomes among low-income children and youth. Social Service Review, 78, 41-73.

Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Moffitt, R., Lohman, B. J., Cherlin, A. J., Coley, R. L., Pittman, L. D., Roff, J. and Votruba-Drzal, E. (2003). Mothers’ transitions from welfare to work and the well-being of preschoolers and adolescents. Science, 299, 1548-1552.

Chase-Lansdale, P. L. and Pittman, L. D. (2002). Welfare reform and parenting: Reasonable expectations. The Future of Children, 12(1), 167-183.

Pittman, L. D. and Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2001). African-American adolescent girls in impoverished communities: Parenting style and adolescent outcomes. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 11, 199-224.

Book Chapters

Pittman, L. D., Ioffe, M. and Keeports, C. (2016). Young adults’ perceptions of grandparenting in multigenerational households. In M. H. Meyer (Ed.), Grandparenting in the US (pp. 185-206). Amityville, NY: Baywood. (pp. 185-206). Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Mounts, N. S., Pittman, L. D., Karre, J. and Walters, T. (2012). Transformations in relationships, independence and interdependence. In G. Creasy and P. Jarvis (Eds.), Adolescent development and school achievement in urban communities: Resilience in the neighborhood (pp. 193-204). New York: Taylor and Francis.

Pittman, L. D., Wakschlag, L. S., Chase-Lansdale, P. L. and Brooks-Gunn, J. (2012). "Mama, I'm a Person, Too!": Individuation and Young African-American mothers' parenting competence. In P. Kerig, M. Schulz and S. Hauser, (Eds.), Adolescence and beyond: Family processes and development (pp. 177-199). New York: Oxford University Press.

Pittman, L. D. and Coley, R. L. (2011). Coparenting in families with adolescent mothers. In J. McHale and K. M. Lindahl (Eds). Co-parenting: Theory, research and clinical applications (pp. 105-126). Washington, DC: APA Press.

Presentations (from the Previous Three Years)

Pabis, J. andamp; Pittman, L. D., (2022, October). Parent training workshop for children with selective mutism: A randomized-controlled trial [poster presentation]. Selective Mutism Association Annual Conference, Virtual Meeting.

Keane, J. N., Zolinski, S. K., Caradec, J. R., Shelleby, E. C., Pittman, L. D., andamp; Bridgett, D. J. (2022, May 26-29). Parenting stress and child outcomes: The role of parenting behaviors and coparenting during the COVID-19 pandemic [poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science conference, Chicago, IL.

Caradec, J. R., Kochanova, K., andamp; Pittman, L. D. (2022, March). Coparenting and parental anxiety: Exploring transactional associations among families with early adolescents. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Flannery, A. J., Pittman, L. D., Kaur, K., Zolinski, S. K., Pabis andamp; J. M., andamp; Caradec, J.R. (2022, March). Coparenting among families of treatment-seeking adolescents: Associations with marital conflict and psychological adjustment. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Zolinski, S. K., Caradec, J. R., McNeela, L., Dubuclet, C., Keane, J., andamp; Pittman, L. P. (2022, March). Patterns of coping with discrimination among ethnic minority adolescents: Examining relations to psychological outcomes. Presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.

Cutright, N. H., Pittman, L. D., andamp; Pabis, J. (2021, November). An examination of hurricane experience, symptomology, and coping in children. andnbsp;Poster presented at the Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

Dubuclet, C., Banks, B., Kaye, J., Bridgett, D. J., Pittman, L. D., andamp; Shelleby, E. (2021, May). The relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and loneliness and their links to child depressive symptoms during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science conference held virtually.

Kaye, J. R., Caradec, J. R., Banks, B., Bridgett, D. J., Pittman, L. D., andamp; Shelleby, E. (2021, May). Pandemic-related stress and maternal internalizing difficulties: Is mindfulness contraindicated for mitigation? Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science conference held virtually.

Pabis, J., andamp; Pittman, L.D. (2021, April). Parenting behaviors and child anxiety: The role of parent and child gender. Poster submitted presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

McNeela, L., Pittman, L.D., Caradec, J., Pabis, J., and Zolinski, S. (2020, March).andnbsp;Coparenting and adolescent psychological symptoms: A transactional analysis. [Paper talk]. Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), San Diego, CA. (conference canceled)

McNeela, L. and Pittman, L. D. (2020, April).andnbsp;The impact of attributional style on adolescent stress and outcomes. [Paper talk]. 92^ndandnbsp;Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), Chicago, IL. (conference canceled)

Zolinski, S., Caradec, J., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. (2020, March 19-21).andnbsp;Late adolescentsandrsquo; strategies to cope with discrimination: Associations with ethnic-racial socialization. Poster accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (conference canceled).

Caradec, J., Zolinski, S., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. (2020, March 19-21).andnbsp;Parenting and anxiety among ethnic minority adolescents: Associations through ethnic identity. Poster accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (conference canceled).

Contact Us

Laura Pittman, Ph.D.
Psychology/Computer Science Building
Room 315
815-753-2485
lpittman@niu.edu

Graduate Students
Psychology/Computer Science Building
Rooms 132 and 134
pittmanlabniu@gmail.com