Selected Publications – Amy K. Nuttall, Ph.D.

Parentification and Caregiving Burden in Family Stress Contexts

Nuttall, A. K., Ballinger, A. L., Levendosky, A. A., & Borkowski, J. G. (2021). Maternal parentification history impacts evaluative cognitions about self, parenting, and child. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42, 315-330.

Nuttall, A. K., Valentino, K., Cummings, E. M., & Davies, P. T. (2021). Contextualizing children’s caregiving responses to interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(3), 276-287.

Beffel, J. H., & Nuttall, A. K. (2021). Influences of parentification and benefit finding on prosocial behavior among typically developing siblings of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 104.

Murrin, M, Beffel, J. H., Nuttall, A. K. (in press). The moderating role of self-disclosure among typically developing siblings of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Nuttall, A. K., Speidel, R., & Valentino, K. (2019). Expanding and extending the role reversal construct in early childhood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 28(11), 3132-3145.

Nuttall, A. K., Zhang, Q., Valentino, K., & Borkowski, J. G. (2019). Intergenerational risk of parentification and infantilization to externalizing moderated by temperament. Journal of Marriage & Family, 81, 648-661.

Nuttall, A. K., Thakkar, K. N., Luo, X., Mueser, K. T., Glynn, S. M., Achtyes, E. D., & Kane, J. M. (2019). Longitudinal associations of family burden and patient quality of life in the context of first-episode schizophrenia in the RAISE-ETP study. Psychiatry Research, 276, 60-68.

Nuttall, A. K., Coberly, B., & Diesel, Sara J. (2018). Childhood caregiving roles, perceptions of benefits, and future caregiving intentions among typically developing adult siblings of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(4), 1999-1209.

Nuttall, A. K., & Valentino, K. (2017). An ecological-transactional model of generational boundary dissolution across development. Marriage & Family Review, 53(2), 105-150.

Nuttall, A. K., Valentino, K., Wang, L., Lefever, J. B., & Borkowski, J. G. (2015). Maternal history of parentification and warm responsiveness during the transition to parenthood: The mediating role of knowledge of infant development. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(6), 863-872.

Nuttall, A. K., Valentino, K., & Borkowski, J. G. (2012). Maternal history of parentification, maternal warm responsiveness, and children’s externalizing behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(5), 767-775.

Intergenerational Transmission and Determinants of Parenting

Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Nuttall, A. K., & Berrigan, M. N. (in press). Mothers’, fathers’, and infants’ characteristics and trajectories of conflictual coparenting over the transition to parenthood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Mills, A., L., Mader, L. L., Burke Lefever, J., Nuttall, A. K., Bigelow, K., Carta, J. J., & Borkowski, J. G. (in press). Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children. Family Process.

Kobayaski, J. E., Bernard, N. K., Nuttall, A. K., Levendosky, A. A., Bogat, G. A., Lonstein, J. S. (2021). Intimate partner violence and positive parenting across early childhood: A comparison of self-reported and observed parenting behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(6), 745-755.

Mitchell, E., Nuttall, A. K., & Wittenborn, A. K. (2019). Maternal depressive symptoms and warm responsiveness across the transmission to parenthood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 28(6), 1604-1612.

Nuttall, A. K., Froyen, L., Skibbe, L. E., & Bowles, R. P. (2019). Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms, home learning environment, and children’s early literacy. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50(4), 681-691.

Miller-Graff, L.E., Nuttall, A.K, & Lefever, J. B. (2019). Violence during pregnancy: Effects in the post-partum period and implications for intergenerational transmission of risk. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(3), 195-203.

Valentino, K., Nuttall, A. K., Comas, M., Borkowski, J. G., & Akai, C. (2012). Intergenerational continuity of child abuse among adolescent mothers: Authoritarian parenting, community violence, and race. Child Maltreatment, 17(2), 172-181.

Family Communication Processes

Cochran, K. A., Bogat, A. G., Levendosky, A. A., Nuttall, A. K., Bayerl, G., & Martinez-Torteya, C. (in press). Mother-child language style predicts internalizing behaviors in children exposed to intimate partner violence. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Journal of Developmental Psychology

Xie, M., Nuttall, A. K., Johnson, D. J., & Qin, D. B. (2021). Longitudinal associations between mother-child and father-child closeness and conflict from middle childhood to adolescence. Family Relations, 70(3), 866-879.

Murrin, M, Beffel, J. H., Nuttall, A. K. (2021). The moderating role of self-disclosure among typically developing siblings of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 364-374.

Nuttall, A. K., Speidel, R., & Valentino, K. (2019). Expanding and extending the role reversal construct in early childhood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, online first available.

Valentino, K., McDonnell, C. G., Comas, M. & Nuttall, A. K. (2018). Distinguishing autobiographical memory specificity from memory abilities during mother-child reminiscing among young children: Associations with emotional adjustment. Journal of Cognition and Development, 19(1), 47-64.

McDonnell, C. G., Valentino, K., Comas, M., & Nuttall, A. K. (2016). Mother-child reminiscing at-risk: Maternal attachment, elaboration, and child autobiographical memory specificity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 65-84

Valentino, K., Hibel, L. C., Cummings, E. M., Nuttall, A. K, Comas, M., & McDonnell, C. G. (2015). Maternal elaborative reminiscing mediates the effect of child maltreatment on behavioral and physiological functioning. Development & Psychopathology, 27, 1515-1526.

Valentino, K., Nuttall, A. K., Comas, M., McDonnell, C. G., Piper, B., Thomas, T., & Fanuele, S. (2014). Mother-child reminiscing and autobiographical memory specificity among preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 15(4), 1197-1207.

Valentino, K., Comas, M., Nuttall, A. K., & Thomas, T. (2013). Training maltreating parents in elaborative and emotion-rich reminiscing with their preschool-aged children. A pilot intervention study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 585-595.

Child Emotional Expression & Memory

Nuttall, A. K., Speidel, R., & Valentino, K. (2019). Expanding and extending the role reversal construct in early childhood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, online first available.

Valentino, K., McDonnell, C. G., Comas, M. & Nuttall, A. K. (2018). Preschoolers’ autobiographical memory specificity relates to their emotional adjustment. Journal of Cognition and Development, 19(1), 47-64.

Nuttall, A. K., Valentino, K., Comas, M., McNeill, A. T., & Stey, P. C. (2014). Autobiographical memory specificity among preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 50(7), 63-72.

Measurement & Methods

Bogat, G. A, VanDahm, K., Muzik, M., Lonstein, J. S., Nuttall, A. K., Levendosky, A. A., Colao, C. F., Hall, A., Cochran, K., Forche, K. R., Koneczny, A., Gareffa, A., Oates, O., Robinson, S., Ballinger, A. L., & Stein, S. F. (in press). Conducting virtual assessments in developmental research: COVID-19 restrictions as a case example. Applied Developmental Science.

Levendosky, A. A., Bogat, G. A, Lonstein, J. S., Muzik, M. & Nuttall, A. K. (in press). Timing effects of prenatal stress on infant and child regulatory functioning: The Michigan Prenatal Stress Study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(9).

Clark, D. A., Nuttall, A. K., & Bowles, R. P. (2021). Process distinguishability in hybrid longitudinal models: Number of time points, misspecification, bias, and change. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45(5), 440-452.

Nuttall, A. K., Speidel, R., & Valentino, K. (2019). Expanding and extending the role reversal construct in early childhood. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 28(11), 3132-3145.

Clark, D. A., Nuttall, A. K., & Bowles, R. P. (2018). Misspecification in latent change score models: Consequences for parameter estimation, model evaluation, and predicting change. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 53(2), 172-189.

Nuttall, A. K., Valentino, K., Comas, M., McNeill, A. T., & Stey, P. C. (2014). Autobiographical memory specificity among preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 50(7), 63-72.