E-Mail    smithcl@vt.edu

Mailing Address   357 Wallace Hall (0416)
                             Blacksburg, VA 24061

               Phone    540-231-4793

                   Fax    540-231-7012

     Office Hours    By appointment

  

• Young children’s social and emotional development
  
• Parent-child interactions
  
• Factors associated with parenting behaviors (e.g., parent personality, marital relations, and family stress)
• Visit the Children's Emotions Lab's website at http://www.techkids.clahs.vt.edu

Smith, C. L., Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N., Grieving, K., Liew, J., & Eggum, N. D.  (in press).  Anger and anger regulation in infancy.  In E. I. Clausen (Ed.), Anger in psychology.  Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Smith, C. L., Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N., Payne, T., K., Gaertner, B. M., & Maxon, E. (2007). Maternal personality: Longitudinal relations to parenting behavior and maternal emotional expressions toward toddlers.  Parenting: Science and Practice, 7, 305-329.

Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N., Gaertner, B., Popp, T., Smith, C.L., Kupfer, A., Greving, K., Liew , J., & Hofer, C.  (2007).  Relations of maternal socialization and toddlers’ effortful control to the children’s adjustment and social competence.  Developmental Psychology, 43, 1170-1186.

Smith, C. L., Calkins, S. D., & Keane, S. P.  (2006). The relation of maternal behavior and attachment security to toddler’s emotionality and emotion regulation.  Research in Human Development, 3, 21-31.

Smith, C. L., Eisenberg, N., & Spinrad, T. L., Chassin, L., Morris, A. S., Kupfer, A., Liew, J., Cumberland, A., Valiente, C., & Kwok, O.  (2006).  Children’s coping strategies and coping efficacy: Relations to parent socialization, child adjustment, and familial alcoholism.  Development and Psychopathology, 18, 445-469.

Smith, C. L., & Eisenberg, N. (2005). Self-regulation. In C.B. Fisher & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Encyclopedia of applied developmental science (pp. 977-980). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Smith, C. L., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., Anastopoulos, A. D., & Shelton, T. L. (2004).  Predicting stability and change in toddler behavior problems: Contributions of maternal behavior and child gender.  Developmental Psychology, 40, 29-42.

Eisenberg, N., Smith, C.L., Sadovsky, A. & Spinrad, T. L.  (2004).  Effortful control: Relations with emotion regulation, adjustment, and socialization in childhood.  In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (pp. 259-282).  New York: Guilford Press.

Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., & Smith, C. L. (2004). Emotion-related regulation: Its conceptualization, relations to social functioning, and socialization.  In P. Philippot & R. S. Feldman (Eds.), The regulation of emotion (pp. 277-306).  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.