Publications

Sanchez, D., Sandre, A., Amarante, M., Wiltshire, C. A., & Noble, K. G. (2025). Screen Exposure, Sleep Quality, and Language Development in 6-month-old Infants. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 2, 1477476.

Su-Keene, E., Wiltshire, C. A., & Ajomabe, J. (under review, Teachers and Teaching). Is it all Sunshine and Rainbows? Comparing stressors, mental health, and intentions to leave between elementary and secondary teachers.

Lee, J. Y., Clark, E., Wiltshire, C. A., & Haslip, M. J. (under review, Teachers and Teacher Education). Resilience in Early Head Start: The changing role of teacher well-being and structural features in interaction quality across the COVID-19 divide. 

Wiltshire, C. A., & Merz, E. C. (in preparation). Associations between Working Conditions, Self-Efficacy, and Hair Cortisol Concentration in Preschool Teachers.

Wiltshire, C. A., Okocha, A., Yuremi, M., Shafir, E., Lew-Williams, C., & Potter, C. E. (in preparation). Perceived Sources of Support and Strain for Parents of Young Children in Under-Resourced U.S. Communities.  

Wiltshire, C. A., Yuremi, M., Dettmer, A. M., & Kim, S. (in preparation). Hispanic PreK Teacher Stress and Lived Experiences: A Comparative Case-Study Along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

McCarthy, C. J., Wiltshire, C. A., Weppner, C., Lambert, R. G. (in preparation). Comprehensively Understanding K-12 Teacher Occupational Health: A Mixed-Method Exploration of Well-being and Intentions to Leave.

Mavrides Calderon, M., Wiltshire, C. A., & Orozco, A. M. (in preparation). Urban Early Childhood Educators Under Pressure: Exploring Effective Coping Mechanisms for Stressful Mandates. 

Fincham, E. N., Wiltshire, C. A., & Reeves, A. F., (in preparation). Surveillance and Deceit in Early Childhood Teaching: Must “Good” Teachers Lie?. 

Wiltshire, C. A., & Scott, M. (2024). Building Executive Function Skills Through Games. YC: Young Children, 79(2).

Martí-Castaner, M., Merz, E. C., Wiltshire, C. A., Melvin, S. A., Henry, K., Landers, C., Jones, S. M., Noble, K. G., & Duch, H. (2024). Frontiers in Psychology. Benefits of the Getting Ready for School Intervention for Children’s School Readiness Skills. 

Wiltshire, C. A., Pinilla, R. K., & Garcia, H. J. (2024). Engendering Playful Purpose in Pre-Service Early Childhood Educator Preparation: Why Community-Engaged Courses Matter. (2024). Education Sciences. 14(12), 1387.

Wiltshire, C. A. (2023). Early Childhood Education Teacher Workforce: Stress in relation to identity and choices. Early Childhood Education Journal. 1-14. 

Wiltshire, C. A. (2023). Early Childhood Education Teacher Well-Being: Performance as a Means of Coping. Early Childhood Education Journal, 1-15. 

Wiltshire, C. A., Fields, H., & Kim, S. (2023). PreKindergarten Teacher Well-being in Rural West Texas. National Network of Research-Practice Partnerships Extra, 5(1), 9-16. 

Wiltshire, C. A. (2023). Infant Screen Use: How and why do 6-month-old infants interact with a screen? What do we know? Child and Family Blog. 

Wiltshire, C. A. (2023). Review of Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children by Maurice Sykes and Kyra Ostendorf. Teachers College Record. 

Wiltshire, C. A., Troller-Renfree, S. V., Giebler, M. A., & Noble, K. G. (2021). Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age. Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 101644. 

Troller-Renfree, S. V., Brito, N. H., Desai, P. M., Leon-Santos, A. G., Wiltshire, C. A., Motton, S. N., Meyer, J., Isler, J. R., Fifer, W. P., & Noble, K. G. (2020). Infants of Mothers with Higher Physiological Stress Show Alterations in Brain Function. Developmental Science, 23(6), el2976. 

Merz, E. C., Wiltshire, C. A., & Noble, K. G. (2019). Socioeconomic Inequality and the Developing Brain: Spotlight on Language and Executive Function. Child Development Perspectives, 13(1), 15-20. [A top-cited paper in Child Development Perspectives in 2019-2020] 

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