Dr. Kiff’s Scientific Works

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Wood, J. J., Kiff, C. J., Jacobs, J., Ifekwunigwe, M., & Piacentini, J. C. (2007). Dependency on elementary school caregivers: The role of parental intrusiveness and children’s separation anxiety. Psychology in the Schools, 44, 823-837.

Kiff, C. J., Lengua, L. J., & Bush, N. R. (2011). Temperament variations in sensitivity to parenting: Predicting changes in depression and anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 1199-1212.

Kiff, C. J., Lengua, L. J., & Zalewski, M. (2011). Nature and nurturing: Parenting in the context of child temperament. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 14(3), 251-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-011-0093-4

Zalewski, M., Lengua, L. J., Kiff, C. J., & Fisher, P. A. (2012). Understanding the relation of low income to HPA-axis functioning in preschool children: Cumulative family adversity and parenting as pathways to disruptions in cortisol. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Kiff, C. J., Cortes, R. C., Lengua, L. J., Kosterman, R., Hawkins, J. D., & Mason, W. A. (2012). Effects of timing of adversity on adolescent and young adult adjustment. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 22(2), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00781.x

Lengua, L. J., Kiff, C. J., Moran, L., Zalewski, M., Thompson, S. F., Cortes, R., & Ruberry, E. (2014). Parenting mediates the effects of income and cumulative risk on the development of effortful control. Social Development, 23(3), 631-649. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12071

Lengua, L. J., Moran, L., Zalewski, M., Ruberry, E., Kiff, C. J., & Thompson, S. F. (2015). Relations of growth in effortful control to family income, cumulative risk, and adjustment in preschool-age children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(4), 705-720. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9941-2

Gonzalez, A., Peris, T. S., Vreeland, A., Kiff, C. J., Kendall, P. C., Compton, S. N., Albano, A. M., Birmaher, B., Ginsburg, G. S., Keeton, C. P., March, J., McCracken, J., Rynn, M., Sherrill, J., Walkup, J. T., & Piacentini, J. (2015). Parental anxiety as a predictor of medication and CBT response for anxious youth. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46(1), 84-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-014-0454-6

Mogil, C., Hajal, N., Garcia, E., Kiff, C. J., Paley, B., Milburn, N., & Lester, P. (2015). FOCUS for Early Childhood: A virtual home visiting program for military families with young children. Contemporary Family Therapy, 37(3), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-015-9327-9

Adrian, M., Kiff, C. J., Glazner, C., Kohen, R., Tracy, J. H., Zhou, C., McCauley, E., & Vander Stoep, A. (2015). Examining gene-environment interactions in comorbid depressive and disruptive behavior disorders using a Bayesian approach. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 68, 125-133.

Zalewski, M., Lengua, L. J., Thompson, S. F., & Kiff, C. J. (2016). Income, cumulative risk, and longitudinal profiles of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in preschool-age children. Development and Psychopathology, 28(2), 341-353. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579415000474

Lester, P., Aralis, H., Sinclair, M., Kiff, C. J., Lee, K. H., Mustillo, S., & Wadsworth, S. M. (2016). The impact of deployment on parental, family and child adjustment in military families. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 47(6), 938-949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-016-0624-9

Moran, L., Lengua, L. J., Zalewski, M., Ruberry, E., Klein, M., Thompson, S. F., & Kiff, C. J. (2017). Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk. Journal of Research in Personality, 67, 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.03.003

Thompson, S. F., Zalewski, M., Kiff, C. J., & Lengua, L. J. (2018). A state-trait model of cortisol in early childhood: Contextual and parental predictors of stable and time-varying effects. Hormones and Behavior, 98, 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.12.009

Klein, M. R., Lengua, L. J., Thompson, S. F., Moran, L., Ruberry, E. J., Kiff, C. J., & Zalewski, M. (2018). Bidirectional relations between temperament and parenting predicting preschool-age children's adjustment. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(sup1), S113-S126. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1169537

Ruberry, E. J., Klein, M. R., Kiff, C. J., Thompson, S. F., & Lengua, L. J. (2018). Parenting as a moderator of the effects of cumulative risk on children's social-emotional adjustment and academic readiness. Infant and Child Development, 27(3), e2071. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2071

Kiff, C. J., Ernestus, S., Gonzalez, A., Kendall, P. C., Albano, A. M., Compton, S. N., Birmaher, B., Ginsburg, G. S., Rynn, M., Walkup, J. T., McCracken, J., & Piacentini, J. C. (2018). The interplay of familial and individual risk in predicting clinical improvements in pediatric anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(sup1), S542-S554. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1460848

Hajal, N. J., Aralis, H. J., Kiff, C. J., Wasserman, M. M., Paley, B., Milburn, N. G., Mogil, C., & Lester, P. (2020). Parental wartime deployment and socioemotional adjustment in early childhood: The critical role of military parents' perceived threat during deployment. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(3), 307-317. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22475

Lengua, L. J., Thompson, S. F., Moran, L. R., Zalewski, M., Ruberry, E. J., Klein, M. R., & Kiff, C. J. (2020). Pathways from early adversity to later adjustment: Tests of the additive and bidirectional effects of executive control and diurnal cortisol in early childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 32(2), 545-558. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419000373

Mogil, C., Hajal, N., Aralis, H., Paley, B., Milburn, N. G., Barrera, W., Kiff, C. J., Beardslee, W., & Lester, P. (2022). A trauma-informed, family-centered, virtual home visiting program for young children: One-year outcomes. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53(5), 964-979. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01181-y

Wijesekera, K., Kiff, C. J., Aralis, H., Sinclair, M., Bursch, B., Alejos, J. C., & Lester, P. (2023). Hybrid delivery of behavioral health screening and prevention intervention for pediatric heart transplant recipients and families: A randomized pilot study. Pediatric Transplantation, 27(8), e14577.

Lester, P., Aralis, H., Hajal, N., Bursch, B., Milburn, N., Paley, B., Sinclair Cortez, M., Barrera, W., Kiff, C. J., Beardslee, W., & Mogil, C. (2024). Multiple informant cluster analysis findings: Which military-connected preschool aged children are doing well and why? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33, 3665-3678. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02902-2

Published Correction

Lengua, L. J., Thompson, S. F., Moran, L. R., Zalewski, M., Ruberry, E. J., Klein, M. R., & Kiff, C. J. (2021). Pathways from early adversity to later adjustment: Tests of the additive and bidirectional effects of executive control and diurnal cortisol in early childhood, Corrigendum. Development and Psychopathology, 33(3), 1140. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421000110

Book Chapters

Lengua, L. J., & Kiff, C. J. (2009). Temperament and depression. In R. E. Ingram (Ed.), International encyclopedia of depression. Springer.

Flaherty, B. P., & Kiff, C. J. (2012). Latent class and latent profile models. In H. Cooper, P. M. Camic, D. L. Long, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology, Vol. 3: Data analysis and research publication (pp. 391-404). American Psychological Association.

Thompson, S. F., Kiff, C. J., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2018). The neurobiology of stress and adversity in infancy. In C. H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of infant mental health (4th ed.). Guilford Press.

Flaherty, B. P., Wang, L., & Kiff, C. J. (2023). Latent class and latent profile models. In H. Cooper, M. N. Coutanche, L. M. McMullen, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology: Data analysis and research publication (pp. 411–427). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000320-018