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

Research Interests

Broadly, I am interested in the impact of family relationships on socioemotional and psychopathological development throughout childhood and adolescence, especially in regard to mood disorders and suicidal behavior.

Clinical Interests

Working with children and adolescents suffering from mood and behavioral disorders, and providing family education to those affected families.

Publications

Flannery, A. J., Luebbe, A. M., and Becker, S. P. (2016). Sluggish cognitive tempo is associated with poorer study skills, more executive functioning deficits, and greater impairment in college students. Journal of Clinical Psychology. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22406 Flannery, A. J., Becker, S. P., and Luebbe, A. M. (2014). Does emotion dysregulation mediate the association between sluggish cognitive tempo and college students' social adjustment? Journal of Attention Disorders. doi: 10.1177/1087054714527794

Becker, S. P., Langberg, J. M., Luebbe, A. M., Dvorsky, M. R., and Flannery, A. J. (2014). Sluggish cognitive tempo is associated with academic functioning and internalizing symptoms in college students with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70, 388-403. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22046

Pittman, L. D., Padgett, E. E., and Flannery, A. J. (Manuscript under review). Grandmothers in the Role of the Coparent: Longitudinal Links to Low-Income Children's Academic and Socioemotional Functioning.

Poster Presentations

Flannery, A. J., Pittman, L. D., Padgett, E. E., Kochanova, K., and McNeela, L. (2018, April). Does Coparenting Within Intact Families Mediate the Association Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Behavioral Problems? Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Minneapolis, MN.

Padgett, E. E., Pittman, L. D., and Flannery, A. J. (2018, April). Associations between Parenting and Positive Outcomes: Variation by Ethnicity. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), 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 to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), 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.

Flannery, A. J., and Shelleby, E. C. (2016, May). The longitudinal influence of maternal stress on child internalizing and externalizing behavior: Indirect effects of harsh discipline. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Chicago, IL.

Shelleby, E. C., and Flannery, A. J. (2016, May). Economic stress in Fragile Families: Pathways to child maladjustment. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), 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 (SRA), 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 (SRA), Baltimore, MD.

Flannery, A. J., Gustafson, E., Hicks, A., Klossing, J., Raack, A., Stewart, E. E., Torcasso, G., and Ogg, J. (2016, January). Appropriateness of therapeutic approaches for counseling diverse youth. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Illinois School Psychologists Association (ISPA), Springfield, IL.

Pittman, L. D., Stewart, E. E., and Flannery, A. J. (2015, March). Coparenting is more than coresidence: How grandmother mother co-parenting influences low-income, minority children. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Philadelphia, PA