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Kimberly Day serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology within the Usha Kundu, MD College of Health at the University of West Florida. She teaches core courses including research methods in psychology, child development, psychology of adolescence, and developmental psychology from her office in Building 41, Room 206.
Her academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (magna cum laude) from George Mason University, master's and doctoral degrees in Human Development with Child and Adolescent Development concentration from Virginia Tech, and a two-year Lawson Postdoctoral Fellowship at McMaster University's Offord Centre for Child Studies.
Dr. Day's research program investigates how individual characteristics and environmental contexts shape young children's developmental trajectories. Primary emphases include prenatal/postnatal stressors, self-regulation mechanisms, private speech functions, and parenting practices. Her work demonstrates how parental emotion socialization moderates children's regulatory capacities, particularly within preschool populations.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2015-2023) reveals three dominant research strands: (1) self-regulation dynamics through private speech in cognitive/emotional contexts, (2) parenting influences on developmental outcomes, and (3) longitudinal effects of birth complications like extremely low birth weight. These studies consistently employ developmental psychology frameworks to examine regulatory abilities across childhood into adulthood.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Lawson Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Day actively mentors graduate students in UWF's Psychology program while securing research funding for child development investigations. Her work receives support through departmental resources and targeted contributions to UWF's psychology research fund.
Her laboratory activities operate within UWF's Psychology Department infrastructure, utilizing university facilities for observational studies of child development and longitudinal data analysis of birth cohort outcomes.
