Graduate Students
Chrystyna D. Kouros
Program: Developmental
Research Interests: Kouros' research focuses on the interplay between family processes and mental health. Specifically, her research interests include: 1) examining how couples interact during everyday marital disagreements; 2) the impact of marital functioning on spouses’ mental health; and 3) children’s immediate emotional and behavioral reactions to everyday interparental conflict and the impact of marital conflict on children’s broader adjustment.
Recent Publications:
Cummings, E.M., Papp, L.M., & Kouros, C.D. (in press). Regulatory processes in children’s coping with exposure to marital conflict. To appear in S. L. Olson & A. J. Sameroff (Eds.), Regulatory processes in the development of child behavior problems: Biological, behavioral, and social perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
Cummings, E.M., Kouros, C.D., & Papp, L.M. (2007). Marital aggression and children's responses to everyday interparental conflict. European Psychologist, 12(1), 17-28.
Cummings, E.M., El-Sheikh, M., Kouros, C.D., & Keller, P.S. (in review). Children's sympathetic nervous system reactivity as a mechanism of risk in the context of parental depressive symptoms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
El-Sheikh, M., Cummings, E.M., Kouros, C.D., Elmore-Staton, L., & Buckhalt, J.A. (in review). Marital psychological and physical aggression and children’s mental and physical health: Emotional insecurity as mediators of effects.
Yuan, K. Kouros, C.D., & Kelley, K. (in review). Diagnosis of covariance structure models by analyzing the path.
Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago
Contact Information
Email: Kouros.1@nd.edu