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Marion O'Brien
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Publications - 88
Citations - 9118
Marion O'Brien is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The author has contributed to research in topics: Maternal sensitivity & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 88 publications receiving 8344 citations. Previous affiliations of Marion O'Brien include University of Texas at Dallas.
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Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from ages 9 to 15 years.
TL;DR: Measure physical activity decreased significantly between ages 9 and 15 years, and boys were more active than girls, spending 18 and 14 more minutes per day on the weekdays and weekends, respectively.
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Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood.
Philip R. Nader,Philip R. Nader,Marion O'Brien,Renate Houts,Robert H. Bradley,Jay Belsky,Robert Crosnoe,Sarah L. Friedman,Zuguo Mei,Elizabeth J. Susman +9 more
TL;DR: The data from this study indicate that children with BMI >85th percentile, as well as with BMIs in the high reference range are more likely than children whose BMI is <50th percentile to continue to gain weight and reach overweight status by adolescence.
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Differential Effects of Maternal Sensitivity to Infant Distress and Nondistress on Social-Emotional Functioning
TL;DR: Maternal sensitivity to distress but not to nondistress was related to fewer behavioral problems and higher social competence, and for temperamentally reactive infants, maternalensitivity to distress was associated with less affect dysregulation.
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Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care
Virginia D. Allhusen,Mark Appelbaum,Jay Belsky,Cathryn L. Booth,Robert H. Bradley,Celia A. Brownell,Peg Burchinal,Bettye M. Caldwell,Susan B. Campbell,K. Alison Clarke-Stewart,Martha J. Cox,Ganie DeHart,Sarah L. Friedman,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Aletha C. Huston,Elizabeth Jaeger,Deborah J. Johnson,Jean F. Kelly,Bonnie Knoke,Nancy L. Marshall,Kathleen McCartney,Marion O'Brien,Margaret Tresch Owen,Chris Payne,Deborah A. Phillips,Robert C. Pianta,Suzanne M. Randolph,Wendy Wagner Robeson,Susan J. Spieker,Deborah Lowe Vandell,Kathleen E. Wallner-Allen,Marsha Weinraub +31 more
TL;DR: In the most comprehensive US study to date about connections among child care experiences, family factors, and children's early development, 1100 children have been followed from birth through age 7 as discussed by the authors.
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Family stress and parental responses to children's negative emotions: tests of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses.
TL;DR: The relations between 4 sources of family stress and the emotion socialization practice of mothers' and fathers' responses to children's negative emotions were examined and suggest that measures ofFamily stress relate to supportive and nonsupportive parental responses, though many of these relations differ by parent gender.