A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Mindy Erchull
Miriam Liss
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss recently presented a poster, Exploring Female Sexual Empowerment: Developing the Sex is Power Scale, at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dr. Miriam Liss and Dr. Mindy Erchull recently presented a poster, Conceptualizing Objectification as a Source of Insidious Trauma, with Haley Miles-McLean, Caitlin Robertson, Charlotte Hagerman, Michelle Gnoleba, and Leanna Papp, a group of psychology students with whom they conducted research during the 2012-13 acadecmic year, at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC.
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss recently presented a poster, Believing that Jealousy is Good: Scale Development and Validation, with UMW alumna T. Michele Humphries, class of 2012, at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC.
Miles-McLean, H., Schiffrin, H. H., Liss, M., *Geary, K., *Tashner, T., *Rizzo, K., & Erchull, M. J. (2013, May). Helping or hovering? The effects of helicopter parenting and autonomy support on college students’ mental health. Poster presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
NOTE: There were several other faculty at the conference that also presented with their students including Jennifer Mailloux, Hilary Stebbins, Debra Steckler, Miriam Liss, & Mindy Erchull (they had a poster with different students in addition to this one). So, you might want to contact them to get the complete information or you can search for their last names on the APS web site:
http://aps.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program_2013/search/?type=poster
University of Mary Washington Associate Professor of Psychology Miriam Liss will discuss the link between attachment parenting techniques and feminism in an interview scheduled to air on the “With Good Reason” public radio program. The show, “Humor Works,” will air beginning Saturday, Feb. 23.
Miriam Liss
The interview will focus on the 2012 study “Feminism and Attachment Parenting: Attitudes, Stereotypes, and Misperceptions” by Liss and her colleague Mindy Erchull. The study, based on a survey of hundreds of self-described feminists and non-feminists, shows that attachment parenting techniques, like co-sleeping, breastfeeding and carrying a child in a body sling, are more popular with feminists than non-feminists. The study also reveals that people hold stereotypes about the ‘typical feminist,’ when in fact those stereotypes aren’t true.
Liss, a licensed clinical psychologist, is an expert on gender issues and autism and developmental disorders. She received the UMW Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award in 2005 and was a finalist for the SCHEV state award in 2006 and 2009. Her research has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. The 2013 study “Helping or Hovering? The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on College Students’ Well-Being” and the 2012 study “Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering,” both co-authored by Liss and her colleague Holly Schiffrin, garnered international media attention.
Liss earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.
“With Good Reason” airs weekly in Fredericksburg on Sundays from 1-2 p.m. on Radio IQ 88.3 Digital. To listen from outside of the Fredericksburg area, a complete list of air times and links to corresponding radio stations can be found at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/when-to-listen/.
“With Good Reason” is the only statewide public radio program in Virginia. It hosts scholars from Virginia’s public colleges and universities who discuss the latest in research, pressing social issues and the curious and whimsical. “With Good Reason” is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Miriam Liss
Holly Schiffrin
Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin’s study “Helping or Hovering? The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on College Students’ Well-Being” examines the impact over-controlling parents have on college students.
The study, published in Springer’s Journal of Child and Family Studies, shows that college students who have “helicopter parents” are more likely to be depressed and less satisfied with their lives. This type of parenting negatively affects students’ well-being by infringing on their need to feel both autonomous and competent.
Articles and segments about the study have appeared in national and international outlets, including Reuters, CBS, WTOP, and The Daily Mail (U.K.).
Associate Professor of Psychology Mindy Erchull, Haley Miles-McLean ’13, Katherine A. Geary ’12 and Taryn Tashner ’12 also contributed to the study.
Miriam Liss
Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin’s research article “Maternal Guilt and Shame: The Role of Self-Discrepancy and Fear of Negative Evaluation” appears in the Journal of Child and Family Studies, published online on Oct. 19, 2012. Liss and Schiffrin co-wrote the article with Kathryn Rizzo ’12. The study shows mothers who compare themselves to other mothers and fear that others are judging and evaluating them experience the emotions of both guilt and shame – emotions that have been shown to lead to negative mental health consequences.
Holly Schiffrin
Miriam Liss
Holly Schiffrin
A recent study by Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin and 2012 graduate Kathryn Rizzo appears in the article “Smother Mother: Why Intensive Child Rearing Hurts Parents and Kids,” published on Time.com on Friday, July 13.
The study, “Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering,” also is mentioned in a recent op-ed in the New York Post.
Miriam Liss
Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin’s study “Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering” has attracted national media attention. Liss and Schiffrin co-authored with study, published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies, with 2012 graduate Kathryn Rizzo.
References to the study appear in numerous media outlets, including Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes.com and Buzz Feed. Schiffrin also discusses the study in an interview on radio station 1320 WILS.
Holly Schiffrin