Emma K Adam

Identifying social influences on emotional and physiological stress in children and adolescents and their parents; effects of physiological stress on emotional and physical health, in particular the role of HPA axis activity in early health disparities and the development of emotional disorders over the transition to adulthood. Factors predicting emotion and physiological stress in young children, adolescents and adults in the context of their everyday lives including home, work and school contexts; especially the role of interpersonal relationships as elicitors and buffers of stress Short-term effects of physiological stress for everyday functioning; cumulative effects of physiological stress on the development of emotional and physical health disorders and academic attainment Social influences on sleep timing and quality in naturalistic settings using diary-based measures and actigraphy. Implications of short-term (day-to-day) changes in sleep for emotion and cognition and of individual differences in sleep timing and quality for mental and physical health outcomes Effects of parent-child attachment relationships and of early adverse relationship experiences on the socioemotional and psychoendocrine development of children and adolescents Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in stress, sleep and health; the impact of perceived discrimination on biological stress processes