Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Talbot, J., Baker, J.K., & McHale, J.P. (2009). Sharing the love: Prebirth adult attachment status and coparenting adjustment during infancy. The transition to parenthood [Special issue]. Parenting: Science & Practice, 9, 56-77.

McHale, J.P., Fivaz-Depeursinge, E., Dickstein, S., Robertson, J., & Daley, M. (2008). New evidence for the social embeddedness of infants' early triangular capacities. Family Process, 47, 445-463.

Elliston, D, McHale, J., Talbot, J., Parmley, M. & Kuersten-Hogan, R. (2008). Withdrawal from coparenting interactions during early infancy. Family Process, 47, 481-499.

Khazan, I., McHale, J. & DeCourcey, W. (2008). Violated wishes concerning division of childcare labor predict early coparenting process during stressful and non-stressful family evaluations. Infant Mental Health Journal, 29, 343-361.

McHale, J. & Rotman, T. (2007). Is seeing believing? Expectant parents’ outlooks on coparenting and later coparenting solidarity. Infant Behavior & Development, 30, 63-81.

McHale, J.  (2007). When infants grow up in multiperson relationship systems. Infant Mental Health Journal, 28, 1-23.

McHale, J, Vinden, P., Bush, L., Richer, D., Shaw, D. & Smith, B. (2005). Patterns of adjustment among sport-involved and non-involved urban, middle school children. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22, 119-136.

McHale, J., Kuersten-Hogan, R., & Rao, N. (2004). Growing points in the study of coparenting relationships. Journal of Adult Development, 11, 221-235.

McHale, J., Kazali, C., Rotman, T., Talbot, J., Carleton, M. & Lieberson, R. (2004). The transition to co-parenthood: Parents’ pre-birth expectations and early coparental adjustment at three months post-partum. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 711-733.

Talbot, J. & McHale, J. (2004). Individual parental personality traits moderate the relationship between marital and coparenting quality. Journal of Adult Development, 11, 191-205.

Rao, N., McHale, J. P., & Pearson, E. (2003). Links between socialization goals and child-rearing practices in Chinese and Indian mothers. Infant and Child Development, 12, 475-492.

McHale, J., Kuersten-Hogan, R., Lauretti, A. & Rasmussen, J. (2000). Parental reports of coparenting and observed coparenting behavior during the toddler period. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 220-237.

Kuersten-Hogan, R. & McHale, J. (2000). Stability of emotion talk in families from the toddler to the preschool years. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 161, 115-121.

McHale, J., Rao, N. & Kransnow, A. (2000). Constructing family climates: Chinese mothers’ reports of their coparenting behavior and preschoolers’ adaptation. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24, 111-118.

McHale, J. & Fivaz-Depeursinge, E. (1999). Understanding triadic and family group process during infancy and early childhood. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2, 107-127.

McHale, J., Neugebauer, A., Radin, A. & Schwartz, A. (1999). Preschoolers’ characterizations of multiple family relationships during family doll play. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 256-268.

McHale, J., Johnson, D. & Sinclair, R. (1999). Family-level dynamics, preschoolers’ family representations, and playground adjustment. Early Education and Development, 10, 373-401.

McHale, J. & Rasmussen, J. (1998). Coparental and family group-level dynamics during infancy: Early family precursors of child and family functioning during preschool. Development and Psychopathology, 10, 39-58.

McHale, J. (1997). Overt and covert coparenting processes in the family. Family Process, 36, 183-210.

McHale, J. (1995). Co-parenting and triadic interactions during infancy: The roles of marital distress and and child gender. Developmental Psychology, 31, 985-996.