Author

Cara J. Kiff

Observed name: Cara Kiff

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Observed institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington

ORCID: 0000-0003-2345-2002

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-2345-2002

OpenAlex ID: A5010575262

Nature and Nurturing: Parenting in the Context of Child Temperament

2011 · Cara J. Kiff, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review · 658

Relations of Growth in Effortful Control to Family Income, Cumulative Risk, and Adjustment in Preschool-age Children

2014 · Liliana J. Lengua, Lyndsey Moran, et al. · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · 138

Parenting Mediates the Effects of Income and Cumulative Risk on the Development of Effortful Control

2013 · Liliana J. Lengua, Cara Kiff, et al. · Social Development · 105

Temperament Variation in Sensitivity to Parenting: Predicting Changes in Depression and Anxiety

2011 · Cara J. Kiff, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · 87

The Impact of Deployment on Parental, Family and Child Adjustment in Military Families

2016 · Patricia Lester, Hilary Aralis, et al. · Child Psychiatry & Human Development · 85

Understanding the Relation of Low Income to HPA-Axis Functioning in Preschool Children: Cumulative Family Risk and Parenting As Pathways to Disruptions in Cortisol

2012 · Maureen Zalewski, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Child Psychiatry & Human Development · 84

Bidirectional Relations Between Temperament and Parenting Predicting Preschool-Age Children’s Adjustment

2016 · Melanie R. Klein, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology · 75

Parental Anxiety as a Predictor of Medication and CBT Response for Anxious Youth

2014 · Araceli Gonzalez, Tara S. Peris, et al. · Child Psychiatry & Human Development · 57

Latent class and latent profile models.

2012 · Brian P. Flaherty, Cara J. Kiff · American Psychological Association eBooks · 54

An empirical test of the model of socialization of emotion: Maternal and child contributors to preschoolers’ emotion knowledge and adjustment.

2020 · Stephanie F. Thompson, Maureen Zalewski, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 43

Parenting as a moderator of the effects of cumulative risk on children's social–emotional adjustment and academic readiness

2017 · Erika J. Ruberry, Melanie R. Klein, et al. · Infant and Child Development · 40

FOCUS for Early Childhood: A Virtual Home Visiting Program for Military Families with Young Children

2015 · Catherine Mogil, Nastassia Hajal, et al. · Contemporary Family Therapy · 37

Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk

2016 · Lyndsey Moran, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Journal of Research in Personality · 35

Pathways from early adversity to later adjustment: Tests of the additive and bidirectional effects of executive control and diurnal cortisol in early childhood

2019 · Liliana J. Lengua, Stephanie F. Thompson, et al. · Development and Psychopathology · 25

Income, cumulative risk, and longitudinal profiles of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity in preschool-age children

2015 · Maureen Zalewski, Liliana J. Lengua, et al. · Development and Psychopathology · 25

A Trauma-Informed, Family-Centered, Virtual Home Visiting Program for Young Children: One-Year Outcomes

2021 · Catherine Mogil, Nastassia Hajal, et al. · Child Psychiatry & Human Development · 24

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Examining gene–environment interactions in comorbid depressive and disruptive behavior disorders using a Bayesian approach

2015 · Molly Adrian, Cara Kiff, et al. · Journal of Psychiatric Research · 22

Dependency on elementary school caregivers: The role of parental intrusiveness and children's separation anxiety

2007 · Jeffrey J. Wood, Cara Kiff, et al. · Psychology in the Schools · 19

Effects of Timing of Adversity on Adolescent and Young Adult Adjustment

2012 · Cara J. Kiff, Rebecca C. Cortes, et al. · Journal of Research on Adolescence · 16

Parental Wartime Deployment and Socioemotional Adjustment in Early Childhood: The Critical Role of Military Parents’ Perceived Threat During Deployment

2020 · Nastassia J. Hajal, Hilary J. Aralis, et al. · Journal of Traumatic Stress · 10

Hybrid delivery of behavioral health screening and prevention intervention for pediatric heart transplant recipients and families: A randomized pilot study

2023 · Kanchana Wijesekera, Cara Kiff, et al. · Pediatric Transplantation · 9

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A state-trait model of cortisol in early childhood: Contextual and parental predictors of stable and time-varying effects

2018 · Stephanie F. Thompson, Maureen Zalewski, et al. · Hormones and Behavior · 8

Concurrent and prospective effects of income, adversity, and parenting behaviors on middle‐childhood effortful control and adjustment

2021 · Liliana J. Lengua, Stephanie F. Thompson, et al. · Social Development · 6

Clarifying the unique effects of pre‐ and postnatal depression on pre‐schoolers' adjustment

2020 · Stephanie F. Thompson, Melanie R. Klein, et al. · Infant and Child Development · 5

Cumulative Risk and Substance Use in Adoptees: Moderation by Adoptive Parent Stress

2020 · Austin J. Blake, Jill M. Waterman, et al. · Family Relations · 4

Works count: 34

Citation count: 1,683

H-index: 18

I10-index: 20