Dr Katherine Shelton - BSc PhD Cardiff
Overview
Research Group:
Developmental Science
Location: Tower Building, Park Place
Email: SheltonkH1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76093
Research Summary
My research is in the area of developmental psychology with a focus on the emergence and maintenance of developmental psychopathology in social contexts during middle childhood and adolescence. I am particularly interested in the relationship between aspects of family functioning and children’s psychological well-being.
Teaching Summary
Undergraduate: I am module leader for a final year option titled ‘The Development of Psychopathology and Criminality’ and contribute to a Level 2 course on Developmental Psychology. I am involved in the supervision of final year research projects in the area of family relationships and early adult well-being and the supervision of research projects undertaken by intercalating medical students from the School of Medicine, Cardiff University.
Postgraduate: I am the pathway convenor for the ESRC recognised Masters in Research Methods in the Social Sciences. I also coordinate the Postgraduate Research Design and Statistics course that postgraduate students undertake in the first year of their studies. I am involved in the supervision of a number of postgraduate students and I am primary supervisor for a student joint funded by the ESRC and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Selected Publications (2008 onwards)
Shelton, K.H., van den Bree, M.B.M., Mackie, P.K., Taylor, P.J., Evans. S.J. (in press, 2012). Opening Doors for all American Youth? Evidence for Federal Homelessness Policy. Housing Policy Debate.
Baker, E., Baibazarova, E., Ktistaki, G., Shelton, K.H., van Goozen, S.H.M. (in press, 2012). Development of fear and guilt in young children: Stability over time and relations with psychopathology. Development and Psychopathol
Shelton, K.H., Collishaw, S. Rice, F., Harold, G.T, & Thapar, A. (2011). Using a genetically informative design to examine the relationship between breast feeding and childhood conduct problems. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 20: 11, 571-579. [pdf]
Mannering, A. M., Harold, G. T., Leve, L. D., Shelton, K. H., Shaw, D.S., Conger, R. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Scaramella, L. V. and Reiss, D. (2011). Longitudinal Associations Between Marital Instability and Child Sleep Problems Across Infancy and Toddlerhood in Adoptive Families. Child Development, 82: 1252-1266. [pdf] [doi] [news coverage] [news coverage] [news coverage] [news coverage]
Shelton, K.H., & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2010). The moderating effects of pubertal timing on the longitudinal associations between parent-child relationship quality and adolescent substance use. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, (4), 1044-1064. [pdf]
Glaser, B., Shelton, K.H., & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2010). The moderating role of close friends in the relationship between conduct problems and adolescent substance use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 47, 35-42. [pdf]
van den Bree M.B.M, Shelton K.H., Moss S., Thomas H.V., Bonner A., Taylor P.J. (2009). A longitudinal population-based study of factors in adolescence predicting homelessness in young adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 45, 571-578. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H., Rice, F., Harold, G.T, Hay, D., Boivin, J., van den Bree, M.B.M & Thapar, A. (2009). Examining differences in psychological adjustment problems among children conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technologies. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, (5), 385-392. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H., Taylor, P., Bonner, A. & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2009). Risk factors for homelessness: Evidence from a population-based study. Psychiatric Services, 60 (4), 465-472. [pdf]
Shelton, K. H. & Harold, G.T. (2008a). Interparental conflict, negative parenting and children’s adjustment: Bridging links between parents’ psychological symptoms and children’s psychological symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 22 (5), 712-724. [pdf]
Shelton, K. H., & Harold, G.T. (2008b). Pathways between interparental conflict and adolescent psychological adjustment: Bridging links through children’s cognitive appraisals and coping strategies. Journal of Early Adolescence, 28, 555-582. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H, Harold, G., Fowler, T., Rice, F., Neale, M., Thapar, A & van den Bree, M. B. M. (2008). Parent-child relations, conduct problems and cigarette use in adolescence: Examining the role of genetic and environmental factors on patterns of behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 314-325. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H, Walters, S. & Harold, G. (2008). Children’s appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families: comparative links with externalizing and internalizing behaviors. In J. Pryor (Ed). The International Handbook of Stepfamilies. Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments. Wiley. Ch. 10.
Harold, G.T, Shelton, K.H., Rice, F., Boivin, J., Hay, D., van den Bree, M.B.M & Thapar. (2008). Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on children’s development: Introducing a novel methodology. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 40 (10): 1070-1000.
Publications
Online Publications
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Full List of Publications
Forthcoming
Shelton, K.H., van den Bree, M.B.M., Mackie, P.K., Taylor, P.J., Evans. S.J. (in press, 2012). Opening Doors for all American Youth? Evidence for Federal Homelessness Policy. Housing Policy Debate.
Baker, E., Baibazarova, E., Ktistaki, G., Shelton, K.H., van Goozen, S.H.M. (in press, 2012). Development of fear and guilt in young children: Stability over time and relations with psychopathology. Development and Psychopathol
Patrick, J., Smy, V., Tombs, M., Shelton, K.H. (in press). Being in one’s chosen job determines pre-training attitudes and training outcomes. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
2011
Shelton, K.H., Collishaw, S. Rice, F., Harold, G.T, & Thapar, A. (2011). Using a genetically informative design to examine the relationship between breast feeding and childhood conduct problems. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 20: 11, 571-579. [pdf]
Mannering, A. M., Harold, G. T., Leve, L. D., Shelton, K. H., Shaw, D.S., Conger, R. D., Neiderhiser, J. M., Scaramella, L. V. and Reiss, D. (2011). Longitudinal Associations Between Marital Instability and Child Sleep Problems Across Infancy and Toddlerhood in Adoptive Families. Child Development, 82: 1252-1266. [pdf] [doi] [news coverage] [news coverage] [news coverage] [news coverage]
2010
Shelton, K.H., & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2010). The moderating effects of pubertal timing on the longitudinal associations between parent-child relationship quality and adolescent substance use. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, (4), 1044-1064. [pdf]
Glaser, B., Shelton, K.H., & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2010). The moderating role of close friends in the relationship between conduct problems and adolescent substance use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 47, 35-42. [pdf]
2009
van den Bree M.B.M, Shelton K.H., Moss S., Thomas H.V., Bonner A., Taylor P.J. (2009). A longitudinal population-based study of factors in adolescence predicting homelessness in young adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 45, 571-578. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H., Rice, F., Harold, G.T, Hay, D., Boivin, J., van den Bree, M.B.M & Thapar, A. (2009). Examining differences in psychological adjustment problems among children conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technologies. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, (5), 385-392. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H., Taylor, P., Bonner, A. & van den Bree, M.B.M. (2009). Risk factors for homelessness: Evidence from a population-based study. Psychiatric Services, 60 (4), 465-472. [pdf]
2008
Shelton, K. H. & Harold, G.T. (2008a). Interparental conflict, negative parenting and children’s adjustment: Bridging links between parents’ psychological symptoms and children’s psychological symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 22 (5), 712-724. [pdf]
Shelton, K. H., & Harold, G.T. (2008b). Pathways between interparental conflict and adolescent psychological adjustment: Bridging links through children’s cognitive appraisals and coping strategies. Journal of Early Adolescence, 28, 555-582. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H, Harold, G., Fowler, T., Rice, F., Neale, M., Thapar, A & van den Bree, M. B. M. (2008). Parent-child relations, conduct problems and cigarette use in adolescence: Examining the role of genetic and environmental factors on patterns of behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 314-325. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H, Walters, S. & Harold, G. (2008). Children’s appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families: comparative links with externalizing and internalizing behaviors. In J. Pryor (Ed). The International Handbook of Stepfamilies. Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments. Wiley. Ch. 10.
Harold, G.T, Shelton, K.H., Rice, F., Boivin, J., Hay, D., van den Bree, M.B.M & Thapar. (2008). Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on children’s development: Introducing a novel methodology. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 40 (10): 1070-1000.
2007
Harold, G., Aitken, J., & Shelton, K. H. (2007). Interparental conflict and children’s academic attainment: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 12, 1223-32. [pdf]
Shelton, K. H., & Harold, G. T. (2007). Marital conflict and children’s adjustment: The mediating and moderating role of children’s coping strategies. Social Development, 16, 3,389-618. [pdf]
Shelton, K.H., Lifford, K., Fowler, T., Rice, F., Neale, M., Harold, G., Thapar, A & van den Bree, M. B. M. (2007). The association between conduct problems and the initiation and progression of marijuana use during adolescence: A genetic analysis across time. Behavior Genetics, 37, 314-325. [pdf]
Fowler, T., Shelton, K.H., Lifford, K., Rice, F., McBride, A., Nikolov, I., Neale, M., Harold, G. Thapar, A., & van den Bree, M. B. M. (2007). Genetic and environmental influences on the relationship between peer alcohol use and own alcohol use in adolescents. Addiction, 102, 894-903. [pdf]
Fowler, T., Lifford, K., Shelton, K., Rice, F., Neale, M., Thapar, A., McBride, A. & van den Bree, M. B. M. (2007). Exploring the relationship between genetic influences on initiation and progression of substance use. Addiction, 101, 413-422. [pdf]
van den Bree M, Rice F, Fowler T, SheltonK, Lifford K, Scourfield J, Harold G, Thapar A. The Cardiff Study of All Wales and North West of England Twins (CaStANET): A longitudinal research programme of child and adolescent development (2007). Twin Research on Human Genetics,10, 13-25. [pdf]
2006
Shelton, K. H., Harold, G. T., Goeke-Morey, M. & Cummings, E. M. (2006). Children’s coping with marital conflict: The role of conflict expression and gender. Social Development, 15, 2, 232-247. [pdf]
Rice, F., Harold, G. T., Shelton, K. H. & Thapar, A. (2006). Family conflict interacts with genetic liability in predicting childhood and adolescent depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 7, 841-8. [pdf]
2002-2004
Harold, G. T., Shelton, K. H., Goeke-Morey, M. C., & Cummings, E. M. (2004). Marital conflict, child emotional security about family relationships and child adjustment. Social Development, 13, 350-376. [pdf]
Goeke-Morey, M., Cummings, E. M., Harold, G. T. & Shelton, K. H. (2003). Categories and continua of destructive and constructive marital conflict tactics from the perspective of US and Welsh children. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 327-338.
Harold, G.T., Shelton, K.H., Goeke-Morey, M.C., & Cummings, E.M. (2002). Relations between interparental conflict, child emotional security, and adjustment in the context of cognitive appraisals. In P. T. Davies, G. T. Harold, M. C. Goeke-Morey & E. M. Cummings (Eds.,). Child Emotional Security and Interparental Conflict. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development, Serial 270, 67(3).
Goeke-Morey, M.C., Cummings, E.M., Harold, G. T., & Shelton, K. H. (2002). Child responses to interparental conflict: Comparing the relative roles of emotional security and social learning processes In P. T. Davies, G. T. Harold, M. C. Goeke-Morey & E. M. Cummings (Eds.,). Child Emotional Security and Interparental Conflict. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development, Serial 270, 67(3).
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Research
Research Topics and Related Papers
My core interest is children’s understanding of their family and how these appraisals influence their psychological well-being and development (Harold et al., 2002; 2004; 2007; Shelton et al., 2006, 2008; Shelton & Harold, 2007, 2008a,b; Goeke-Morey et al., 2002; 2003). Some of my research has examined the family-based processes that characterise relationships between parent psychopathology and adolescent aggression and depression (Shelton & Harold, 2008) as well as the interplay of genetic and environmental factors underlying links between parent-child conflict and early adolescent adjustment problems (Shelton et al., 2007). I have also undertaken research examining the nature of relationships between family functioning, pubertal timing and adolescent substance use (Shelton & van den Bree, 2010). More recently, I have conducted research examining risk factors for homelessness in early adulthood (Shelton et al., 2009; van den Bree et al., 2009).
Funding
Rice, F., Frederickson, N., Shelton, K. H., McManus, C. (2011-2013). Examining pathways linking
psychological adjustment and academic attainment across the transition to secondary school. Nuffield
Foundation. £111,474. [link]
van den Bree, M.B.M., Shelton, K. H., Heron, J., Munafo, M., Hickman, M & Maughan, B. (2011-2013). Peer group influences on the relationship between depressive symptoms and alcohol misuse in adolescence. European Research Advisory Board. €94,486.
Shelton, K.H. & van den Bree M.B.M. (2010 - 2013). Knowledge Transfer Partnership: £129,456. The needs of young people with homelessness experiences.
Shelton, K.H. (2003-4). Marital conflict, children’s coping strategies and their psychological adjustment: A process-oriented analysis. Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. £27,117.
Research Collaborators
Dr. Frances Rice, University College London
Dr. Marianne MB. van den Bree, Cardiff University
Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Research Interests
I am interested in supervising research projects in the area of developmental psychology with a particular focus on the family as a context for understanding child and adolescent well-being.
If you are interested in applying for a PhD, or for further information regarding my postgraduate research, please contact me directly (contact details available on the 'Overview' page), or submit a formal application here.
Current Students
Alegra Hummel. Doctoral research: Psychological aspects of pubertal maturation, family functioning and substance use in adolescence.
Kate Hodgson. Doctoral research: An investigation of characteristics of young people with experiences of homelessness.
Previous Students
Sasha Walters. (2007 - 2011). Doctoral dissertation: ‘Family influences on children's transition from primary to secondary school.’
Eugenia Baibazarova (2007 - 2011). Doctoral dissertation: ‘Maternal influences on early child emotional development.’
Miss Eleanor Walsh (2008-2009). Masters in Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Awarded with Distinction.
Biography
Undergraduate Education
1999: Bachelor of Science, University of Wales, Cardiff. First Class Honours.
Postgraduate Education
2003: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology. Cardiff University.
2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. Higher Education Academy.
Awards/External Committees
2005: Travel Fellowship, Behavior Genetics Association.
2003: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Economic and Social Research Council.
2001: Charles Cole Travelling Scholarship, Cardiff University for a research visit to University California, Davis.
1999: Stuart Dimond memorial prize for best final year undergraduate research project, Cardiff University.
Associate Editor: Social Development
Employment
2009 - present: Lecturer. School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
2007 - 2008: Research and Teaching Fellow. School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
2004 - 2006: Research Psychologist, Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University.
2003 - 2004: ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
1998 - 1999: Research Assistant, City University, London.
1997 - 1998: Research Assistant, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.