Check Out Our ResearchGate Lab Profile! Selected recent publications from FRESH Lab projects (*indicates student author) *Rodriguez, V. J., *La Barrie, D. L., *Zegarac, M. C., & Shaffer, A. (2021). A Systematic Review of Parenting Scales Measurement Invariance/Equivalence of by Race and Ethnicity: Recommendations for Inclusive Parenting Research. Assessment, 10731911211038630. *Rodriguez, V. J., *Are, F., *Madden, A., Shaffer, A., & Suveg, C. (2021). Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Maltreatment Mediated by Maternal Emotion Dysregulation. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(8), 2068-2075. Shaffer, A., *Rodriguez, V. J., Kolko, D. J., Pilkonis, P. A., & Lindhiem, O. (2021). Measurement invariance in the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire: Implications for culturally inclusive parenting research. Journal of Family Issues, 0192513X211030022. *Rodriguez, V. J., & Shaffer, A. (2021). Validation of the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS): Factor structure and measurement invariance. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(4), 468. *Rodriguez, V. J., Shaffer, A., Lee, T. K., Peltzer, K., Weiss, S. M., & Jones, D. L. (2020). Psychological and physical intimate partner violence and maternal depressive symptoms during the pre-and post-partum period among women living with HIV in rural South Africa. Journal of family violence, 35(1), 73-83. *Rodriguez, V. J., Shaffer, A., *Are, F., *Madden, A., Jones, D.L., & Kumar, M. (2019). Identification of differential item functioning by race and ethnicity in the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Child Abuse & Neglect, 94, 10430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104030 *Loucks, L. A., van Dellen, M., & Shaffer, A. (2019). Childhood emotional maltreatment and psychological aggression in young adult dating relationships: the moderating role of emotion communication. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407517729224 *Davis, M., Thomassin, K., *Bilms, J., Suveg, C., Shaffer, A., & Beach, S. R. H. (2017). Preschoolers’ genetic, physiological, and behavioral sensitivity factors moderate links between parenting stress and internalizing, externalizing, and sleep problems. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 473-485. DOI: 10.1002/dev.21510 *Rea, H., & Shaffer, A. (2016). Expressed emotion in mothers of school-age children: relations to maternal maltreatment and parenting behavior. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 3749-3759. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-016-0500-z *McCullough, C., *Han, R. Z., *Morelen, D., & Shaffer, A. (2017). The moderating effects of maternal age at childbirth and emotion dysregulation on the intergenerational continuity of emotionally unsupportive parenting behaviors. Journal of Family Issues, 38, 948-971. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X15597290 *Lamkin, J., Lavner, J., & Shaffer, A. (2017). Narcissism and observed communication in couples. Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 224-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.09.046 *Morelen, D., Shaffer, A., & Suveg, C. (2016). Maternal emotion regulation: Links to emotion parenting and child emotion regulation. Journal of Family Issues, 37, 1891-1916. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14546720 *Are, F., & Shaffer, A. (2016). Family emotion expressiveness mediates the relations between maternal emotion regulation and child emotion regulation. Human Development and Child Psychiatry, 47, 708-715. DOI 10.1007/s10578-015-0605-4 *Davis, M., Suveg, C., Whitehead, M., Jones, A., & Shaffer, A. (2016). Preschoolers' psychophysiological responses to mood induction tasks moderate the intergenerational transmission of internalizing problems. Biological Psychology, 117, 159-169. DOI:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.03.015 Suveg, C., Shaffer, A., & *Davis, M. (2016). Family stress moderates relations between physiological and behavioral synchrony and child self-regulation in mother-preschooler dyads. Developmental Psychobiology, 58, 83-97. DOI 10.1002/dev.21358 Selected recent publications from other collaborations Shaffer, A., Fitzgerald, M. M., Shipman, K. L., & Torres, M. (2019). Let’s Connect: A developmentally driven emotion-focused parenting intervention. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 63, 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.05.007 Thomassin, K., Quint, E., Sezlik, S., & Shaffer, A. (2017). Profiles of emotion deficits and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury in an inpatient sample. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 27, 752-764. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12312 Shaffer, A., & Obradović, J. (2017). Unique contributions of emotion regulation and executive functions in predicting the quality of parent-child interaction behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 150-159. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000269 Shaffer, A., Lindhiem, O., & Kolko, D. J. (advance online publication). Treatment effects of a primary-care intervention on parenting behaviors: sometimes it's relative. Prevention Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-016-0689-5 Thomassin, K., Shaffer, A., *Madden, A., & Londino, D. (2016). Specificity of childhood maltreatment and emotion deficit in nonsuicidal self-injury in an inpatient sample of youth. Psychiatry Research, 244, 103-108. DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.07.050 Lindhiem, O., Shaffer, A., & Kolko, D. J. (2014). Quantifying discipline practices: A comparison of methods. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 29, 66-81. DOI: 10.1177/0886260513504650