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Stella Tsotsi

Stella Tsotsi

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Jeg er interessert i risikofaktorer som kan gjøre barn og unge mer utsatt for å utvikle psykopatologi. Disse risikofaktorene involverer: 1) barns selvregulering (f.eks. eksekutive funksjoner, emosjonsregulering, temperament); 2) foreldrefaktorer, f.eks. psykiske problemer og aspekter ved foreldreskap (transgenerasjonell overføring av psykiske helseproblemer); 3) biologiske indekser, f. eks. genotype og epigenetiske prosesser. Jeg er også interessert i implementering av tidlige intervensjoner for å hjelpe barna mot risikoen. Jeg er utdannet som klinisk nevropsykolog og har forskningserfaring med store tverrfaglige kohortstudier med fokus på de ovennevnte forskningsinteressene.

Min nåværende forskning involverer å undersøke samtidig forekomst av aggresjon og internaliseringsvansker hos barn og unge og rollen til genetiske og epigenetiske mekanismer i sammenhengen mellom stress i tidlig liv, aspekter ved foreldreskap og sosio-emosjonelle vansker hos barn.

Jeg samarbeider med forskere i Montreal og Ottawa (Canada), Amsterdam og Rotterdam (Nederland), Saarbrücken (Tyskland), Manchester (Storbritannia) og Singapore for å forstå hvordan foreldres psykiske helse og foreldreskap former barns emosjonelle kompetanse og mottakelighet for psykopatologi.

Jeg er peer reviewer for ulike tidsskrifter som Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships og Infant and Child Development.

Forskningsgrupper

Publikasjoner og forskningsresultater

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Amundsen, Vaarin; Gjesmoe, Amalie; Andreassen, Einar; Bølstad, Evalill; Severinsen, Yvonne; Viana, Karine Porpino ; Bjørk, Rune Flaaten; Nygaard, Egil; Bekkhus, Mona; Tsotsi, Stella (2025). Alcohol Use and Parental Socialization of Emotion in a Population-Based Sample. Parenting, science and practice.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2025.2465988

Ngoh, Gwendolyn; Sim, Lit Wee; Tan, Ai Peng; Tsotsi, Stella ; Lee, Kerry; Chan, Jerry K.Y.; Meaney, Michael J.; Rifkin-Graboi, Anne (2025). Young children’s preferences for their mothers: concurrent predictors and correlates. Attachment & Human Development.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2025.2467104

Creasey, Nicole; Schuurmans, Isabel; Tsotsi, Stella ; Dafina, Serena; Baltramonaityte, Vilte; Felix, Janine F.; Neumann, Alexander; Page, Christian Magnus; Tollenaar, Marieke; Bekkhus, Mona; Walton, Esther; Cecil, Charlotte (2025). Prenatal stress, epigenetically-assessed glucocorticoid exposure at birth, and child psychiatric symptoms: A prospective, multi-cohort study. Psychoneuroendocrinology. Vol. 175.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107388

Oftedal, Aurora; Tsotsi, Stella ; Kaasen, Anne ; Mayerhofer, Lilian Juliane Kozlowski; Røysamb, Espen; Smajlagic, Dinka; Tanbo, Tom Gunnar; Bekkhus, Mona (2023). Anxiety and depression in expectant parents: ART versus spontaneous conception. Human Reproduction. Vol. 38.
https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead133

Svendsrud, Hedvig; Fredriksen, Eivor; Moe, Vibeke; Smith, Lars; Tsotsi, Stella ; Ullebø, Anne Karin; Brean, Gro Vatne; Kaasen, Anne ; Bekkhus, Mona (2023). Becoming Dad: Expectant Fathers’ Attachment Style and Prenatal Representations of the Unborn Child. Children. Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3390/children10071187

Low, Ann; Yu, Yue; Sim, Lit Wee; Bureau, Jean Francois; Tan, Ngiap Chuan; Chen, Helen; Yang, Yang; Cheon, Bobby; Lee, Kerry; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian; Tsotsi, Stella ; Rifkin-Graboi, Anne (2023). Maternal distress and parenting during COVID-19: differential effects related to pre-pandemic distress?. BMC Psychiatry. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04867-w

Tsotsi, Stella ; Goh, Shaun; Coplan, Robert J.; Bølstad, Evalill; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi; Smajlagic, Dinka; Bekkhus, Mona (2023). Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Vol. 47.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254231187902

Rifkin-Graboi, Anne; Tsotsi, Stella ; Syazwana, Nadhrah; Stephenson, Mary C.; Sim, Lit Wee; Lee, Kerry (2023). Variation in maternal sensitivity and the development of memory biases in preschoolers. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1093619

Bekkhus, Mona; Lee, Yunsung; Samuelsen, Sven Ove; Tsotsi, Stella ; Magnus, Per Minor (2022). Maternal and paternal anxiety during pregnancy: Comparing the effects on behavioral problems in offspring. PLOS ONE. Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275085

Loo, Evelyn Xiu Ling; Soh, Shu-E; Loy, See Ling; Ng, Sharon; Tint, Mya Thway; Chan, Shiao-Yng; Huang, Jonathan Yinhao; Yap, Fabian; Tan, Kok Hian; Chern, Bernard S. M.; Tan, Heng Hao; Meaney, MIchael J.; Karnani, Neerja; Godfrey, Keith M.; Lee, Yung Seng; Chan, Jerry Kok Yen; Gluckman, Peter D.; Chong, Yap-Seng; Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi; Eriksson, Johan G.; Tsotsi, Stella ; Hsu, Stephen Chin‑Ying; Toh, Sue‑Anne Ee Shiow; Sadananthan, Suresh Anand; Tan, Teng Hong; Yew, Tong Wei; Gupta, Varsha; Rajadurai, Victor Samuel; Han, Wee Meng; Pang, Wei Wei; Yuan, Wen Lun; Zhu, Yanan; Cheung, Yin Bun; Cheng, Zai Ru (2021). Cohort profile: Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO). European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00697-2





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Formidling

Oftedal, Aurora; Tsotsi, Stella ; mayerhofer, lilian; Kaasen, Anne ; Smajlagic, Dinka; Bekkhus, Mona (2022). Maternal and paternal anxiety and depression in pregnancies using assisted reproductive technology compared to spontaneous conception. ISSBD . ISSBD .

Smajlagic, Dinka; Tsotsi, Stella ; Gjerdevik, Miriam; Page, Christian Magnus; Zayats, Tetyana; Austerberry, Chloe; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi; Lyle, Robert; Magnus, Per Minor; Gjessing, Håkon K.; Corfield, Elizabeth Claire; Havdahl, Alexandra; Andreassen, Ole; Bekkhus, Mona (2022). Parent-of-origin effects in childhood aggression. World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics. International Society of Psychiatric Genetics.

Tsotsi, Stella ; Goh, shaun; Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi; Smajlagic, Dinka; Coplan, Robert; Bølstad, Evalill; Bekkhus, Mona (2022). The co-occurrence of emotional difficulties and aggression in early childhood and the risk of later mental health outcomes: The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort. ISSBD . ISSBD .

Tsotsi, Stella ; Yang, Yang (2022). Master Your Feelings: Emotional Competence in Early Childhood Parent-Related Antecedents and Child Outcomes. Tan, Oon Seng; Poon, Kenneth K.; O'Brien, Beth Ann; Rifkin-Graboi, Anne (Red.). Early Childhood Development and Education in Singapore. s. 217-240. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7405-1_11

Tsotsi, Stella ; Abdulla, Nurshuhadah; Li, Chen; Chong, Yap Seng; Richmond, Jenny; Saw, Seang Mei; Kwek, Kenneth; Gluckman, Peter D.; Meaney, Michael J.; Holbrook, Joanna D.; Karnani, Neerja; rifkin-graboi, anne (2015). Fetal DNA methylation of cortisol-related genes and infant neurobehavior at 6 months: The role of antenatal maternal anxiety. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.07.484

Tsotsi, Stella ; Kopsida, Eleni; Paschalidou, Marina; Gelagoti, Maria; Milonas, Ioannis; Kosmidis, Mary (2005). Humour appreciation in patients with multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis.



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