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Penina Backer
Penina Backer
Summary Statement

Penina is interested in child emotional wellbeing in the parenting context, particularly parent-child dyadic emotion regulation, its association with parent and child characteristics, and its impact on healthy child development.

Department
  • Graduate Student
Education
  • The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Human Development & Family Studies, 2016
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore County, B.A. in Psychology, 2009
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Publications
  • Backer, P.M., Ram, N., & Stifter, C.A. (2022). Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the Still Face Paradigm are associated with toddler temperament. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, ​101716.
  • Geeraerts, S. B., Backer, P.M., & Stifter, C.A. (2020). It takes two: Infants' moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years. Developmental Psychology, 56(5), 869.
  • Backer, P. M., Quigley, K. M., & Stifter, C. A. (2018). Typologies of dyadic mother-infant emotion regulation following immunization. Infant Behavior and Development, 53, 5-17.
  • Stifter, C.A. & Backer, P.M. (2018). Dyadic Regulation. In SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Retrieved from http://sk.sagepub.com.
  • Stifter, C.A. & Backer, P.M. (2017). Crying Behavior and its Impact on Psychosocial Child Development. In Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development. Retrieved from http://www.child-encyclopedia.com.