Kathleen Preston

Kathleen Preston
California State University, Fullerton | CSUF · Department of Psychology

PhD

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This study examined the roles of neighborhood social cohesion, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and parenting stress in early childhood on child behavioral outcomes in middle childhood and adolescence among socioeconomically disadvantaged Black families. To test a model linking perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion, single mothers' paren...
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Introduction This study provides long‐term evidence that profiles of temperament during adolescence are associated with happiness and health over two decades later. Methods Data are based on the ongoing Fullerton Longitudinal Study, a community‐based sample in the United States. At 14 and 16 years, adolescents (N = 111; 52% male, 90% Euro‐American...
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Academic intrinsic motivation (AIM), the enjoyment of school learning in which pleasure is inherent in the activity itself, provided the theoretical foundation for this research. A person-centered approach using latent profile analysis (LPA) was applied to the AIM subject areas of English, math, history, science, and for school in general at ages 1...
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Higher education professionals are subject to high levels of stress as they support student populations at risk of trauma. Compassion fatigue, which represents dimensions of secondary traumatic stress and burnout, is associated with a poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among those providing student services. Prior studies on helping prof...
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This preliminary study determined whether there are distinct family personality profiles encompassing child-mother-father triads. Data were from the Fullerton Longitudinal Study. Latent profile analysis (LPA) using the Five Factor Model was conducted, resulting in a 3-profile solution characterizing families. Emerging profiles were labeled ordinary...
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In this prospective study, we examined the link between positive family relationships during childhood and adolescence and health and happiness three decades later in middle adulthood. We also investigated the stability of positive family relationships into adulthood as one possible pathway underlying this long-term association. Data were from the...
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Background Schools of Nursing are challenged to increase student diversification as there continues to be documented college achievement gaps in students who come from under-resourced, low socioeconomic communities with difficult environmental constraints and lifestyle issues. Purpose The purpose of this 3-year study was to test a social determina...
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Objective To test a model linking economic hardship, parenting stress, and nonresident fathers' involvement in single mothers' family life during Black boys' early childhood (3–5 years of age) to harsh parenting and behavior problems in middle childhood (9 years of age). Background Parenting stress among single mothers heading low‐income Black fam...
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The extent to which prenatal intrauterine testosterone affects cognitive development in females has been of interest. Previous twin research has, however, been limited in its attempts to disentangle prenatal and psychosocial environmental factors influencing cognitive development. The current study applied a novel approach to addressing this concer...
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This pilot study investigated whether participation in a psychoeducation intervention focused on co-parenting and fathers’ involvement would be associated with improvements in self-efficacy beliefs in a sample of economically disadvantaged single black mothers and the nonresident fathers of their focal 3-year-old children. Of 19 couples who partici...
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Measurement invariance is a prerequisite when comparing different groups of individuals or when studying a group of individuals across time. This assures that the same construct is assessed without measurement artifacts. This investigation applied a novel approach of simultaneous parameter linking to cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of the...
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The construct of positive family relationships (PFR), defined as family members getting along well and supporting each other, was investigated in a long-term prospective study. A newly constructed scale of positive family relationships developed using the nominal response model of item-response theory, was subject to a longitudinal network of relat...
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Curiosity is fundamental to scientific inquiry and pursuance. Parents are important in encouraging children’s involvement in science. This longitudinal study examined pathways from parental stimulation of children’s curiosity per se to their science acquisition (SA). A latent variable of SA was indicated by the inter-related variables of high schoo...
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The bifactor nominal response item response theory (IRT) model, proposed by Cai, Yang and Hansen (2011), provides an extension of Bock's (1972, 1997) unidimensional nominal response model to multidimensional IRT. This model has not been utilized in any published studies since its original development. In this study, the model was applied to data fr...
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The study reported in this article used Fragile Families data to test a mediational model of the influences of nonresident black fathers' involvement with 492 low-income single mothers and their three-year-old children (time 3) on the mothers' psychological well-being and parenting adequacy and the children's socioemotional development at age 5 (ti...
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Though numerous experiments support the presence of linguistic prejudice toward English speakers with foreign accents, there is, to date, no self-report measure of such prejudice. To capture the multidimensional nature of linguistic prejudice, we created the Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English via using the nominal response model under th...
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A psychometric analysis was conducted using the nominal response model under the item response theory framework to construct the Positive Family Relationships scale. Using data from the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, this scale was constructed within a long-term longitudinal framework spanning middle childhood through adolescence. Items tapping this...
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To explore factors associated with occupational sex segregation in the United States over the past four decades, we analyzed U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the percent of women employed in 60 varied occupations from 1972 to 2010. Occupations were assessed on status, people-things orientation, and data-ideas orientation. Multilevel linear...
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The nominal response model (NRM), a much understudied polytomous item response theory (IRT) model, provides researchers the unique opportunity to evaluate within-item category distinctions. Polytomous IRT models, such as the NRM, are frequently applied to psychological assessments representing constructs that are unlikely to be normally distributed...
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Using data from two waves of a short-term longitudinal study, the influences of mothers’ social support with respect to parenting from nonresident fathers and significant others on behavioral outcomes among poor and near-poor preschool-aged Black children were examined. The sample consisted of 99 single Black mothers—each with a preschool-aged chil...
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Although homeless youth exhibit numerous problem behaviors, protective factors that can be targeted and modified by prevention programs to decrease the likelihood of involvement in risky behaviors are less apparent. The current study tested a model of protective factors for multiple problem behavior in a sample of 474 homeless youth (42% girls; 83%...
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The authors used a nominal response item response theory model to estimate category boundary discrimination (CBD) parameters for items drawn from the Emotional Distress item pools (Depression, Anxiety, and Anger) developed in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS) project. For polytomous items with ordered response c...
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Two waves of data from a sample of 89 poor and near-poor single black mothers and their preschool children were used to study the influences of parenting stress, physical discipline practices, and nonresident fathers' relations with their children on behavior problems in kindergarten. The results indicate that higher levels of parent stress, more f...

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