| Stress‐buffering role of social support during COVID‐19 E Szkody, M Stearns, L Stanhope, C McKinney Family process 60 (3), 1002-1015, 2021 | 343 | 2021 |
| The creative benefits scale: Connecting generativity to life satisfaction CE Adams-Price, DK Nadorff, LW Morse, KT Davis, MA Stearns The International Journal of Aging and Human Development 86 (3), 242-265, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Religiosity and depressive symptoms in older adults compared to younger adults: Moderation by age M Stearns, DK Nadorff, ED Lantz, IT McKay Journal of affective disorders 238, 522-525, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Maltreatment and affective and behavioral problems in emerging adults with and without oppositional defiant disorder symptoms: mediation by parent–child relationship quality C McKinney, M Stearns, E Szkody Journal of interpersonal violence 36 (5-6), 2612-2632, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Perceived parent–child religiosity: Moderation by perceived maternal and paternal warmth and autonomy granting and emerging adult gender. M Stearns, C McKinney Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 11 (3), 177, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Perceived parental religiosity and emerging adult psychological adjustment: Moderated mediation by gender and personal religiosity. M Stearns, C McKinney Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 9 (S1), S60, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Connection between parent and child religiosity: A meta-analysis examining parent and child gender. M Stearns, C McKinney Journal of Family Psychology 33 (6), 704, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Perceptions of differential parenting between Southern United States mothers and fathers C McKinney, M Stearns, MM Rogers Journal of child and family studies 27, 3742-3752, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Effect of parental corporal punishment on endorsement of its use: Moderated mediation by parent gender and attitudes toward corporal punishment CS Walker, M Stearns, C McKinney Journal of interpersonal violence 36 (13-14), 6745-6768, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Transmission of religiosity from parent to child: Moderation by perceived parental depression and anxiety M Stearns, C McKinney Journal of Family Issues 39 (12), 3127-3152, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Sleep across childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review of the literature and clinical case examples MA Stearns, CE Ievers-Landis, CS McCrae, SL Simon Children's Health Care 51 (4), 408-430, 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Parent and child antisocial problems: Moderation by emerging adult religiosity and gender M Stearns, C McKinney Personality and Individual Differences 134, 182-189, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| The relationship between parent and child religiosity: Moderation by perceived parental antisocial problems M Stearns, C McKinney The international journal for the psychology of religion 28 (4), 225-239, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Conflict associated with stronger parent-child religiosity in emerging adults, especially for sons. M Stearns, C McKinney Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 12 (2), 149, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| Concordance between parents in offspring maltreatment as perceived by emerging adult college students C McKinney, M Stearns, MM Rogers Child abuse & neglect 99, 104258, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Eliminating sleep health disparities and achieving health equity: Seven areas for action in the behavioral sleep medicine community AJ Hughes, H Gunn, C Siengsukon, MA Stearns, E James, T Donley, ... Behavioral sleep medicine 21 (5), 633-645, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
| The moderation of raising one’s grandchildren on the relation between sleep and depressive symptoms MA Stearns, DK Nadorff Nature and Science of Sleep, 615-626, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Perceived parental anxiety and depressive problems and emerging adult oppositional defiant problems: Moderated mediation by psychological and physical maltreatment and gender M Stearns, C McKinney Family process 59 (2), 651-665, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Connection between parent–child religiosity: moderated mediation by perceived maternal and paternal warmth and overprotection and emerging adult gender M Stearns, C McKinney Review of Religious Research 62 (1), 153-171, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| The mediating effect of gratitude on the relation between religiosity and well-being in samples of undergraduate students and adults formerly raised by grandparent caregivers ED Lantz, M Stearns, I McKay, DK Nadorff Journal of Happiness Studies 23 (3), 969-984, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
