Dr. Peggy Keller
Dr. Keller received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. Her doctoral training focused on the impact of marital conflict and other forms of family stress on children. After receiving her degree, she spent two years in post-doctoral training in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University. She joined the Department of Psychology faculty at the University of Kentucky in 2008 as part of an initiative to increase research on major risk factors that jeopardize healthy child development (the Children at Risk Initiative). This training focused on the psychophysiology of stress and the development of sleep-wake regulation in children. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky and is currently serving as the Lester and Helen Milich Professor for Children at Risk. Dr. Keller has received grants from the National Institutes of Health to support her research and has more than 70 publications.
Recent Publications
Worick, C. E., Usher, E.L, Osterhage, J., Love, A.M.A., & Keller, P. S. (2024). Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Mediates Association between Implicit Theories of Willpower and Learning Strategies. The Journal of Experimental Education, 92(3), 502-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2023.2209861
Keller, P. S., Bi, S., & Schoenberg, N. (2023). Internalizing Symptoms in Children Being Reared by Grandparents in Rural Appalachia: Risk and Protective Factors. Journal of Family Issues, 44(2), 386 408. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211048477
Keller, P. S., Widiger, T.A. & El-Sheikh, M. (2023) Parental Problem Drinking and Maladaptive Personality Features in Children: The Role of Marital Conflict. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 54, 1336–1346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01340-9
Bi, S., Zhou, H., Wang, J., Zhou, H., & Keller, P. S. (2023). Parental mindfulness and externalizing problems in Chinese adolescents: Parenting anxiety and negative parenting as mechanisms. Family Relations, 72(4), 1643–1655. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12783
Scott, B.F. & Keller, P. S. (2023). Parental Problem Drinking and Child Social Behavior: Pathways of Risk through Family Dysfunction. J Child Fam Stud 32, 3200–3212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02633-w