Delaina Carlson

Human Development and Family Sciences

Entered the Program: 2023

Hometown: Meadville, Pennsylvania

Current program:

Ph.D., Human Development and Family Sciences
Area of Specialization: Child and Adolescent Development

Previous Education:

B.A., Applied Developmental Psychology

Research Interests:

Early Childhood Development
Parenting
Child Care and Community Programming
Health and Wellness Promotion
Health Behaviors, such as eating behaviors, sleep and physical activity
Screen Media Usage

Assistantship Experience:

Fall 2023 – present, Research Assistant, ARC Lab, Connecticut Early Years Project

Major Advisor:

Dr. Rachel Chazan Cohen

Curriculum Vitae

Delaina Carlson is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Her research explores the influence of individual, family, and environmental factors on children’s development during early childhood, with a specific focus on social-emotional development, health and well-being, and the systems that support families, such as early child care and education and parent education programs. Delaina’s work is shaped by her background working in early childhood care and education, Early Intervention, and child care financial assistance. She is an alumna of the University of Pittsburgh’s Applied Developmental Psychology program and the Media and Health Behaviors Laboratory at Dartmouth College, where she contributed to several NIH-funded projects.

Publications and Presentations:

Yeum, D., Renier, T. J., Carlson, D. D., Ballarino, G. A., Lansigan, R. K., Meyer, M. L., Loos, R. J. F., Emond, J. A., Masterson, T. D., & Gilbert-Diamond, D. (2024). Genetic associations with neural reward responsivity to food cues in children. Frontiers in Nutrition, 11, 1387514. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1387514

Emond, J. A., Carlson, D., Ballarino, G., & Domoff, S. E. (2024). Validating the Problematic Media Use Measure in Preschool-Aged Children: Associations With Children’s Screen Media Use, Bothersome Pestering to Use Screen Media, and Emotional Self-Regulation. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 5(3: Fall 2024). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000135

Yeum, D., Renier, T. J., Masterson, T. D., Carlson, D. D., Ballarino, G. A., Lansigan, R. K., Loos, R. J. F., Emond, J. A., & Gilbert-Diamond, D. (2024). Genetic associations with consumption of palatable foods in the absence of hunger in response to food cues in children. Pediatric Obesity, n/a(n/a), e13168. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.13168

Godzik, C. M., Carlson, D. D., Pashchenko, O. I., Ballarino, G. A., & Emond, J. A. (2024). Within-child associations between sleep quality and emotional self-regulation over 6 months among preschool-aged (3- to 5-year-old) children. Frontiers in Sleep, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2024.1420245

Zhang, Z., Carlson, D., Gilbert-Diamond, D., & Emond, J. A. (2024). Associations between sleep and appetitive traits in higher-income preschoolers: A six-month study. Appetite, 107254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107254

Renier, T. J., Yeum, D., Emond, J. A., Lansigan, R. K., Ballarino, G. A., Carlson, D. D., Loos, R. J. F., & Gilbert-Diamond, D. (2023). Elucidating pathways to pediatric obesity: a study evaluating obesity polygenic risk scores related to appetitive traits in children. International journal of obesity (2005), 10.1038/s41366-023-01385-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-023-01385-3

Yeum, D., Jimenez, C. A., Emond, J. A., Meyer, M. L., Lansigan, R. K., Carlson, D. D., Ballarino, G. A., Gilbert-Diamond, D., & Masterson, T. D. (2023). Differential neural reward reactivity in response to food advertising medium in children. Frontiers in neuroscience, 17, 1052384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1052384

Yeum, D., Gilbert-Diamond, D., Masterson, T. D., Carlson, D. D., Ballarino, G. A., Lansigan, R. K., Renier, T. J., & Emond, J. A. (2023). Associations between behavioral self-regulation and external food cue responsiveness (EFCR) in preschool-age children and evidence of modification by parenting style. Appetite, 106637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106637

Brand, J., Carlson, D., Ballarino, G., Lansigan, R. K., Emond, J., & Gilbert-Diamond, D. (2022). Attention to food cues following media multitasking is associated with cross-sectional BMI among adolescents. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 992450. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.992450

Emond J., Ballarino G., Carlson D., Lansigan R., Godzik C., & Gilbert-Diamond, D. Disordered sleep and emotional self-regulation in a prospective cohort of preschool-age children. The 36th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (SLEEP 2022). Charlotte, North Carolina. June 5, 2022.

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