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Education:

  • PhD - University of Missouri

  • MA - University of Missouri

  • BA - Baylor University

Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
​3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

About

Stephanie earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007 and completed postdoctoral training at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Stephanie has been working with the Pittsburgh Girls Study since February 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Research Interests

Dr. Stepp's research interests are in risk factors for the development of borderline personality disorder in children and adolescents. She is also interested in statistical methods to model longitudinal data and improve assessment instruments.

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Completed Studies

Girls Personality Study

The Girls Personality Study (GPS; PI: Stephanie Stepp; K01 MH086713) was a substudy of the Pittsburgh Girls Study. The goal of this study was to better understand how emotion plays a role in the development of personality and personality disorders in adolescent girls.

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MOOD-Y

MOOD-Y (PI: Stephanie Stepp; R01 MH101088) was a study recruiting 11-13 year old youth and their parents for a study to examine family responses to emotion in order to better understand the development of personality and personality disorders.

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Representative Publications

  1. Stepp, S. D., Scott, L. N., Jones, N. P., Whalen, D. J., & Hipwell, A. E. (2016). Negative emotional reactivity as a marker of vulnerability in the development of borderline personality disorder symptoms. Development and Psychopathology, 28, 213-224. PMCID: PMC4418187

  2. Dixon-Gordon, K., Scott, L. N., Cummins, N. D., & Stepp, S. D. (2016). The main and interactive effects of maternal interpersonal emotion regulation and negative affect on adolescent girls’ borderline personality disorder symptoms. Cognitive Therapy & Research, 40, 381-393. PMCID: PMC4866813

  3. Stepp, S. D., Lazarus, S. A., & Byrd, A. L. (2016). A systematic review of risk factors prospectively associated with borderline personality disorder: Taking stock and moving forward. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7(4), 316-323. PMCID: PMC5055059

  4. Scott, L. N., Zalewski, M., Beeney, J. E., Jones, N. P., & Stepp, S. D. (2016). Pupillary and affective responses to maternal feedback and the development of borderline personality disorder symptoms. Development and Psychopathology, 29(3), 1-16.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579416001048. PMID: 27779091

  5. Stepp, S.D., & Lazarus, S.A. (2017). Identifying a borderline personality disorder prodrome: Implications for community screening. Personality and Mental Health, 11, 195-205.  
    https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1389. PMID: 28786230

  6. Byrd, A. L., Manuck, S. B., Hawes, S. W., Vebares, T. J., Nimgaonkar, V., Chowdari, K. V., Hipwell, A.E., Keenan, K., & Stepp, S. D. (2019). The interaction between monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) and childhood maltreatment as a predictor of personality pathology in females: emotional reactivity as a potential mediating mechanism. Development and Psychopathology, 31(1), 361-377. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001900

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