Skip to main content

Miriam C Zegarac

Provisional Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry

Selected Publications


Parental depressive symptoms and child psychopathology: Effects of parenting-specific emotion regulation and emotion socialization

Journal Article Family Relations · February 1, 2025 Objective: The study explores the associations among parental depressive symptoms, child symptoms of psychopathology, emotion socialization (ES), and parenting-specific emotion regulation (ER) using a novel measure, the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Sca ... Full text Cite

Paternal Perceptions of Maternal Essentialism and Parenting Self-efficacy During the Transition to Parenthood: An Exploratory Study

Journal Article Journal of Child and Family Studies · August 1, 2024 The transition to parenthood is an exciting, yet stressful, time during which trajectories of infant outcomes, parent health, and coparenting dynamics are established. New parents often receive messaging about what “successful” parenting entails. Expectant ... Full text Cite

The role of specific emotion dysregulation facets in the association between child violence exposure and psychopathology.

Journal Article Psychol Trauma · April 2024 OBJECTIVE: African Americans living in low-income urban environments are disproportionately exposed to violence compared to other racial groups. Child exposure to community violence is linked to adverse psychological outcomes, including externalizing and i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Emotion coaching skills as an augmentation to family-based therapy for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A pilot effectiveness study with families with high expressed emotion.

Journal Article Int J Eat Disord · March 2024 OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility and acceptability of augmenting family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) or atypical anorexia nervosa (AAN) with a parent emotion coaching intervention (EC) focused on reducing parent exp ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Systematic Review of Parenting Scales Measurement Invariance/ Equivalence of by Race and Ethnicity: Recommendations for Inclusive Parenting Research.

Journal Article Assessment · January 2023 The limited inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities in the development and validation of parenting measures limits our understanding of whether parenting constructs are valid in racial and ethnic minorities. Tests of measurement invariance/equivalence (MI/E) ... Full text Link to item Cite

Validation of the Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener Among HIV-Exposed Infants in Rural South Africa

Journal Article JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes · December 1, 2020 Introduction:Screening for developmental delays during critical periods of infant development is essential for early detection and intervention. Among high-risk infants in resource-limite ... Full text Open Access Cite