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Selected Publications

Maher, J. P., Villarreal, A., Behler, M., Hudgins, B. L., Murray, E., Postlethwait, E., & Dollar, J. M. (2025). A daily analysis of adolescent girls’ physical activity using a social ecological model lens. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2024-0124 

Postlethwait, E. M., Villarreal, A., Behler, M., Hudgins, B. L., Murray, E., Dollar, J. M., & Maher, J. P. (2024). Daily Associations between social support, the built environment, and physical activity among adolescent girls. Journal of sport & exercise psychology, 24, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2024-0177

Shriver, L. H., Dollar, J. M., Hosseinzadeh, M., Buehler, C., Wideman, L., & Leerkes, E. M. (2024). Eating Behaviors and Skin Carotenoids in Pregnant Women: The Moderating Influence of Depressive Symptoms and Income. Nutrients, 17(4), 739. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17040739 

 

Bechtiger, L., Steinhoff, A., Dollar, J. M., Keane, SP, Calkins, SD, & Shanahan, L (2024). Developmental cascades from maternal depressive symptoms in childhood to adolescents’ friendship quality: A 13-year longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology. https://doi-org.proxy180.nclive.org/10.1037/dev0001834 

McNeil, J., Berry, N. T., Dollar, J. M., Shriver, L. H., Keane, S. P., Shanahan, L., & Wideman, L. (2024). Associations of actigraphy-assessed sleep variables with adiposity and serum cardiometabolic outcomes in emerging adults. Journal of Sleep Research, 33(2). https://doi-org.proxy180.nclive.org/10.1111/jsr.14068 

Dollar, J. M., Perry, N. B., Calkins, S. D., Shanahan, L., Keane, S. P., Shriver, L. H., & Wideman, L. (2023). Longitudinal associations between specific types of emotional reactivity and psychological, physical health, and school adjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 35(2), 509-523. doi: 10.1017/S0954579421001619. ​

Bechtiger, L., Steinhoff, A., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., Shriver, L. H., Wideman, L., & Shanahan, L. (2022). Maternal depressive symptoms and adolescents’ unhealthy behavior: A 15-year longitudinal study. Pediatrics, 150(4), 1–13. https://doi/10.1542/peds.2022-056562. 

Bechtiger, L., Steinhoff  A., Dollar, J. M., Halliday, S. E., Keane S. P., Calkins, S. D., & Shanahan, L. (2022). Pathways from maternal depressive symptoms to children’s academic performance in adolescence: A 13-year prospective longitudinal study. Child Development. 93(2), 388–404. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13685. 

Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Shriver, L., Keane, S. P., Shanahan, L., & Wideman, L. (2021). Emerging self-regulatory skills in childhood predict cardiometabolic risk in adolescence. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 56(4):783-794. doi: 10.1037/dev0000894.  

Perry, N. B., & Dollar, J. M. (2021). Measurement of behavioral emotion regulation strategies in early childhood: The Early Emotion Regulation Behavior Questionnaire (EERBQ). Children, 8, 779. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8090779 

 

Shriver, L. H., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., Shanahan, L., & Wideman, L. (2021). Emotional eating in adolescence: Effects of emotion regulation, weight status and negative body image. Nutrients, 13(79). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13010079 

Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Berry, N. T., Perry, N. B., Keane, S. P., Shanahan, L., & Wideman, L. (2020). Developmental patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia from toddlerhood to adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 56(4), 783-794. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000894 

Perry, N. E., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., & Shanahan, L. (2020). Maternal socialization of child emotion and adolescent adjustment:  Indirect effects through emotion regulation. Developmental Psychology, 56(3), 541-552. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000815  

Denio, E., Keane, S. P., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., & Shanahan, L. (2020). Children’s peer victimization and internalizing symptoms: The role of inhibitory control and perceived peer acceptance. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 66(1), 91-112. 

Gangel, M., Dollar, J. M., Brown, A., Shanahan, L., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., & Wideman, L. (2019). Childhood social preference predicts lowered risk of insulin resistance in adolescence. Journal of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104557 

 

Stifter, C. A., Augustine, M., & Dollar, J. M. (2019). The role of positive emotions in child development: A developmental treatment of the broaden and build theory. Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(1), 89-94. 10.1080/17439760.2019.1695877 

Calkins, S. D., Dollar, J. M., & Wideman, L. (2019). Temperamental vulnerability to emotion dysregulation and risk for mental and physical health challenges. Development and Psychopathology. doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419000415 

Shriver, L. H., Dollar, J. M., Lawless, M., Calkins, S. D., Shanahan, L., Keane, S. P., & Wideman, L. (2019). Adolescent emotion regulation and adiposity in early adulthood: Indirect effects through eating behaviors. Nutrients, 11(3), 517. doi.org/10.3390/nu11030517  

Dollar, J. M., Perry, N. B., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., & Shanahan, L. (2018). Temperamental anger and positive reactivity and the development of social skills: Implications for academic competence during preadolescence. Early Education and Development, 29(5), 747-761. doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2017.1409606 

 

Perry, N. B., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., & Shanahan, L. (2018). Childhood self-regulation as a mechanism through which early overcontrolling parenting is associated with adjustment in preadolescence. Developmental Psychology, 54(8), 1542–1554. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000536 

Dollar, J. M., Stifter, C. A., & Buss, K. A. (2017). Exuberant and inhibited children: Person-centered profiles and links to social adjustment. Developmental Psychology, 53(7), 1222-1229. doi:10.1037/dev0000323 

Perry, N. B., Dollar, J. M., Calkins, S. D., & Bell, M. A. (2017). Developmental cascade and transactional associations among infant biological and behavioral indicators of temperament and maternal behavior. Child Development. 89(5), 1735–1751. doi:10.1111/cdev.12842 

Perry, N. B., Calkins, S. D., Dollar, J. M., Keane, S. P., O’Brien, M., & Shanahan, L. (2017). Self-regulation as a predictor of patterns of change in externalizing behaviors from infancy to adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 30(2), 497-510. doi:10.1017/S0954579417000992 

Wideman, L., Calkins, S. D., Janssen, J. A., Lovelady, C. A., Dollar, J. M., Keane, S. P., Perrin, E. M., Shanahan, L. (2016). Rationale, design and methods for the RIGHT Track Health study: Pathways from childhood self-regulation to cardiovascular risk in adolescence. BMC Public Health, 16(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3133-7 

Dollar, J. M. & Buss, K. A. (2014).  Approach and temperamental positive emotionality in toddlerhood predict early childhood behavior problems. Social Development, 23(2), 267-287. doi:10.1111/sode.12062 

Dollar, J. M. & Stifter, C. A. (2012). The relationship between toddler temperament and social competence: The moderating role of emotion regulation.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112(2), 178-194. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2012.02.004 

Stifter, C. A., Dollar, J. M., Cipriano, E. A. (2011).  Temperament and emotion regulation:  The role of autonomic nervous system reactivity. Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 266-279. doi:10.1002/dev.20519 

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