Research summary
My core research area is social development, with a focus on children's interactions with family members and friends in relation to their developing understanding of the minds of themselves and others.
In my current projects I am working on the Wales Adoption Study which aims to develop understanding of the early support needs and experiences of newly formed adoptive families and a feasibility study of an innovative approach to assessing young children in the Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit (NDAU). The NDAU uses the RDoC framework to assess children across a wide range of cognitive and socio-emotional domains of development to inform and enhance the continued support of children.
Undergraduate education
2013: BSc Psychology with Professional Placement, Cardiff University
Postgraduate education
2017: PhD Developmental and Health Psychology, Cardiff University
Employment
2019 - present: Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2018 - 2019: Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
2017 - 2018: Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.
2016: Research Assistant, South East Wales Trials Unit, School of Medicine, Cardiff University.
2011 - 2012: Research Assistant, Institute of Psychiatry.
2019
- Anthony, R. E., Paine, A. L. and Shelton, K. H. 2019. Depression and anxiety symptoms of british adoptive parents: a prospective four-wave longitudinal study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(24), pp. -., article number: 5153. (10.3390/ijerph16245153)
- Paine, A. L.et al. 2019. 'H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, PEE! Get it? Pee!': Siblings' shared humour in childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 37(3), pp. 336-353. (10.1111/bjdp.12277)
- Paine, A. L.et al. 2019. Concurrent associations between mothers' references to internal states and children's social understanding in middle childhood. Social Development 28(3), pp. 529-548. (10.1111/sode.12356)
- Anthony, R. E., Paine, A. L. and Shelton, K. H. 2019. Adverse childhood experiences of children adopted from care: The importance of adoptive parental warmth for future child adjustment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(12), article number: 2212. (10.3390/ijerph16122212)
- Paine, A. L.et al. 2019. Assessing the impact of a family nurse-led intervention on young mothers’ references to internal states. Infant Mental Health Journal
2018
- Paine, A. L.et al. 2018. Late, but not early, arriving younger siblings foster firstborns' understanding of second-order false belief. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 166, pp. 251-265. (10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.007)
2017
- Paine, A. 2017. Explaining the influence of younger siblings on firstborns’ understanding of minds in middle childhood: a longitudinal investigation of the mother- firstborn relationship. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Funding
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, 4 year funded PhD studentship.
Research group
Developmental & Health Psychology
Cardiff Child Development Study (CCDS)
Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit
Research collaborators
Professor Dale Hay
Dr Katherine Shelton
Professor Stephanie van Goozen