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Mona El-Sheikh, Ph.D. |
Alumni Professor
203 Spidle Hall
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
Tel (334) 844-3294
Fax (334) 844-4515
elshemm@auburn.eduDr. El-Sheikh's website
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1989
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Interests
Developmental psychopathology, with a focus on associations among family conflict, parental alcoholism, and children’s adjustment, physical health, and cognitive functioning, as well as biopsychosocial functioning in children including interactions between family risk and biological (e.g., sleep patterns) and physiological (sympathetic, parasympathetic, and HPA activity) regulation in the prediction of child outcomes.
Selected Publications
El-Sheikh, M, Buckhalt, J., Cummings, E. M., Keller, P.S., & Acebo, C. (2007). Child emotional insecurity and academic achievement: The role of sleep disruptions. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 29-38.
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Granger, D. A., Erath, S. A, & Acebo, C. (2007). The association between children’s sleep disruption and salivary Interleukin-6. Journal of Sleep Research, 16, 188-197.
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J., Mize, J., & Acebo, C. (2006). Marital conflict and disruption of children's sleep. Child Development, 77, 31-43.
El-Sheikh, M., & Buckhalt, J. (2005). Vagal regulation and emotional intensity predict children's sleep problems. Developmental Psychobiology, 46, 307-317.
El-Sheikh, M. (2005). The role of emotional responses and physiological reactivity in the marital conflict-child functioning link. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 1191-1199.
El-Sheikh, M. (2005). Stability of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in children and young adolescents: A longitudinal examination. Developmental Psychobiology, 46, 66-74.
El-Sheikh, M., & Elmore- Staton, L. (2004). The link between marital conflict and child adjustment: Parent-child conflict and perceived attachments as mediators, potentiators, and mitigators of risk. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 631-648.
El-Sheikh, M., & Buckhalt, J. (2003). Parental problem drinking and children's adjustment: Attachment and family functioning as moderators and mediators of risk. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 510-520.
El Sheikh, M. (2001). Parental drinking problems and children's adjustment: Vagal regulation and emotional reactivity as pathways and moderators of risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 499-515.
El Sheikh, M., & Harger, J. (2001). Appraisals of marital conflict and children's adjustment, health, and physiological reactivity. Developmental Psychology, 37, 875-885.
El Sheikh, M., Harger, J., & Whitson, S. (2001). Exposure to parental conflict and children's adjustment and physical health: The moderating role of vagal tone. Child Development, 72, 1617-1636.
Whitson, S., & El-Sheikh, M. (2003). Marital conflict and health: Processes and protective factors. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 8, 283-312
Ongoing Projects
El-Sheikh, M., & Buckhalt, J. Children’s Sleep and Development: The Role of Family Functioning, Cultural Context, and Body Mass Index. National Science Foundation, Grant No. 0623936 ($247,777); 2006 2008.
El Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J., & Cummings, E. M. Child Regulation and Exposure to Marital Violence, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Grant No. R01-HD046795 ($2,224,843); 2004-2009.
El Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J., & Mize, J. Socialization in the Family and Child Development: Emotionality, Regulation, and Sleep as Pathways and Moderators of Outcomes. National Science Foundation, Grant NO. 0339115 ($250,000); 2004-2007.
El-Sheikh, M., Mize, J., & Buckhalt, J. Sympathetic, Parasympathetic, and HPA Activity in the Response to Family Stress: Deleterious and Protective Effects on Children’s Health, Sleep, and Adjustment. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station/Lindsey Foundation Grant No. ALA080-001 ($40,000); 2003-2005.
Dissertations and Theses Directed
Lori Elmore-Staton
Thesis: “Children’s Alcohol Expectancies: Stability, continuity, and the effects of age, gender, parental problem drinking, and beverage type”
Stephanie Whitson
Dissertation: “Family Conflict and Child Adjustment and Health: Temporal Relations and Intervening Variables.”
Linda Nicolotti
Dissertation: "Coping Responses as Moderators of the Effects of Marital Conflict on Children’s Health and Adjustment."
Victoria Kennedy
Dissertation: "Effects of Marital Conflict on Children’s Adjustment: The Role of Emotional Regulation."
JoAnn Harger
Dissertation: "Children’s Physiological Regulation and Cognitive Appraisals as Moderators of the Relationship between Exposure to Parental Conflict and Children’s Psychosocial Functioning and Physical Health."
Stephanie Reiter
Dissertation: "Maternal Responses to Arguments as Mediators Between Marital Conflict and Children's Responses to Disputes."
Stephanie Whitson
Thesis: "Emotional Regulation as a Buffer of the Effects of Family Conflict on Child Adjustment and Health."
Linda Nicolotti
Thesis: "Children's Responses to Interadult Arguments: the Role of Experimentally Manipulated Histories of Exposure to Covert, Verbal, and Physical Conflict."
JoAnn Harger
Thesis: "Children's Responding to Background Arguments as a Function of Conflict Participants."
Rebecca Blakeman
Thesis: "Children's Behavioral and Physiological Responding to Angry Interactions: the Role of Parental Alcoholism and Marital Conflict."
Stephanie Reiter
Thesis: "Children's Responding to Interadult Arguments: the Roles of Resolution of Conflict and Form of Anger Expression."
Jaime Cheskes
Thesis: "Background Anger: a Comparison of Children's Responses to Interadult and Adult Child Anger."
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
Life-Span Development in a Family Context
Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Advanced Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Coordinated Life-Span-Developmental Psychology and Social Psychology, and supervised GTAs who were teaching these courses
Introduction to Psychology
Graduate:
Life-Span-Development
Individual Differences and Human Development
Seminar: Developmental Psychology and Behavior Analysis
Seminar: Socioemotional Development
Seminar: Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Seminar: Stress and Coping (Developed course but did not teach it)
Seminar: Emotional Regulation in Children
Seminar: Development and Psychopathology
Seminar: Marital Conflict and Child Outcomes
Links
Dr. El-Sheikh's Website.
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