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Sun, K. Cao, C*. The effects of childhood maltreatment, recent interpersonal and noninterpersonal stress, and HPA-axis multilocus genetic variation on prospective changes in adolescent depressive symptoms: A multiwave longitudinal study. Development and Psychopathology. 2024, 1–12.
Xu, Y., Cao, C*. Interpersonal stress and late adolescent depressive symptoms: Moderation by perceptual sensitivity to facial expression of anger. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 2023, 52(12), 2592–2605.[中科院1区TOP期刊]
Cao, C., Rijlaarsdam, J*. Childhood parenting and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms: Moderation by multilocus hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis-related genetic variation. Development and Psychopathology. 2023, 35(2), 524–536.
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Sun, K., Chen, M., Feng, D., Cao, C.*. Intergenerational Transmission of Depressive Symptoms from Mothers to Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model. Child Psychiatry Human Development. 2022.
Cao, C*., Sun, K., Cao, L., Li, F. Monoaminergic multilocus genetic variants interact with stressful life events in predicting changes in adolescent anxiety symptoms: A one-year longitudinal study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 2021, 50(11), 2194–2207.[中科院1区TOP期刊]
Wu, M., Wang, Z*., Cao, C., He, Q. (2021). Family socioeconomic status and executive function in urban Chinese children: The effects of cortisol reactivity. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20, 2616–2626.
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Zhang, W*., Cao, C., Wang, M., Ji, L., & Cao, Y. (2016). Monoamine oxidase a (MAOA) and catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) gene polymorphisms interact with maternal parenting in association with adolescent reactive aggression but not proactive aggression: Evidence of differential susceptibility. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(4), 812–829.