Leslie D. Leve

Heritable, Prenatal, and Environmental Pathways of Parental Stress: Differential Influences on Children’s Effortful Control and Cortisol Regulation

Parental stress can have lasting consequences on children’s stress sensitivity and self-regulation capacities. However, it remains unclear the extent to which these effects reflect birth parent influences (genetic and/or prenatal), environmental rearing experiences, and/or intera...