Undergraduate Research Assistant Awarded Newcomb College Institute Student Grant

This fall, Child and Family Lab senior, Lauren Fleming, was awarded $2,700 through the Newcomb College Institute Student Grant to fund research. Lauren’s funding is to support the coding of the Insightfulness Assessment data from the Child & Family Lab’s Parent Child and Coping Study. The Insightfulness Assessment follows a procedure of structured interviews with mothers about their children based on videotaped segments of mother-child interactions (Oppenheim & Koren-Karie, 2002). Dr. Nina Koren-Karie, a researcher at the

University of Haifa, created the Insightfulness Assessment (IA) and therefore codes the interview transcriptions. Coding the interviews is a time and cost consuming process, therefore, the grant funding will go towards coding more of our IA interviews. Lauren is using the IA coding data in her thesis project seeking to address the gaps present in the research on intergenerational transmission of adversity by examining key regulatory processes in early childhood as well as the potential buffering power of maternal insightfulness. She hopes that having more IA coded data available to the lab team in the future will allow for more research to be produced that examines the the potential protective aspect of maternal insightfulness as a strength within the parent-child relationship. Lauren plans on defending her thesis this Spring. We are proud of her hard work and excited to see it unfold!