PUBLICATIONS

Jouriles, E. N., Pfiffner, L. J., & O'Leary, S. G. (1988). Marital conflict, parenting and toddler conduct problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 16, 197-206. (pdf)

Pfiffner, L. J., & O'Leary, S. G. (1989). Effects of maternal discipline and nurturance on toddlers' behavior and affect. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 17, 527-540. (pdf)

Arnold, D. S., O'Leary, S. G., Wolff, L. S., & Acker, M. M. (1993). The Parenting Scale: A measure of dysfunctional parenting in discipline situations. Psychological Assessment, 5, 137-144. (pdf)

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Reid, M. J., O'Leary, S. G., & Wolff, L. S. (1994). Effects of maternal distraction and reprimands on toddlers' transgressions and negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 22, 237-245. (pdf)

Smith, A. M., & O'Leary, S. G. (1995). Attributions and arousal as predictors of maternal discipline. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 19, 345-357. (pdf)

O’Leary, S. G. (1995). Parental discipline mistakes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4(1), 11-13. (pdf)

Arnold, E. H., & O'Leary, S. G. (1995). The effect of child negative affect on maternal discipline behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 23, 585-595. (pdf) Has been abstracted for: 1. Clinician’s Research Digest, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1996.

Acker, M. M., & O’Leary, S. G. (1996). Inconsistency of mothers’ feedback and toddlers’ misbehavior and negative affect. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 24, 703-714. (pdf)

Sherrill, J. T., O’Leary, S. G., Albertson-Kelly, J. A., Kendziora, K. T. (1996). When reprimand consistency may and may not matter. Behavior

Modification, 20, 226-236.

Arnold, E. H., O’Leary, S. G., & Edwards, G. H. (1997). Father involvement and self-reported parenting of children with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 337-342. (pdf)

Arnold, E. H., & O’Leary, S. G. (1997). Mothers’ and fathers’ discipline of hard-to-manage toddlers. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 19, 1-11. (pdf)

Schwartz, M., O’Leary, S. G., & Kendziora, K. T. (1997). Dating aggression among high school students. Violence and Victims, 12, 3-14.

Kendziora, K. T., & O’Leary, S. G. (1998). Appraisals of child behavior by mothers of problem and nonproblem toddlers. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26, 247-255. (pdf)

Slep, A. M. S., & O’Leary, S. G. (1998). The effects of maternal attributions on parenting: An experimental analysis. Journal of Family Psychology, 12, 234-243. (pdf)

Reid, M. J., Walter, A. L., & O’Leary, S. G. (1999). Treatment of young children’s bedtime refusal and nighttime wakings: A comparison of “Standard” and Graduated ignoring procedures. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27, 5-16. (pdf)

O’Leary, S. G., Smith Slep, A. M. S., & Reid, M. J. (1999). A longitudinal study of mothers’ overreactive discipline and toddlers’ externalizing behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27(5), 331-341. (pdf)

Smith Slep, A. M., & O’Leary, S. G. (2001). Examining partner and child abuse: Are we ready for a more integrated approach to family violence? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 4, 87-107. (pdf)

Lorber, M. F., O’Leary, S. G., & Kendziora, K. (2003). Mothers’ overreactive discipline and their encoding and appraisals of toddler behavior.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 31(5), 485-494. (pdf)

O’Leary, S. G., & Vidair, H. B. (2005). Marital adjustment, child rearing disagreements, and overreactive parenting: Predicting child behavior problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 208-216. (pdf)

Slep, A. M. S., & O’Leary, S. G. (2005). Parent and partner violence in families with young children: Rates, patterns, and connections. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 435-444. (pdf)

Lorber, M. F., & O’Leary, S. G. (2005). Mediated paths to overreactive discipline: Mothers’ experienced emotion, appraisals, and physiological responses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 972-981. (pdf)

Del Vecchio, T., & O’Leary, S. G. (2006). Antecedents of toddler aggression: Dysfunctional parenting in mother-toddler dyads. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35, 194-202. (pdf)