Marital Conflict, Child Emotional Security about Family Relationships and Child Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Harold, Gordon T.; Shelton, Katherine H.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Cummings, E. Mark
Titel	Marital Conflict, Child Emotional Security about Family Relationships and Child Adjustment
Quelle	In: Social Development, 13 (2004) 3, S.350-376 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.00272.x
Schlagwörter	Security (Psychology); Child Rearing; Foreign Countries; Parent Child Relationship; Interpersonal Relationship; Emotional Adjustment; Marital Instability; Family Environment; Emotional Response; Adjustment (to Environment); Structural Equation Models; Correlation; Parenting Styles; Conflict; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Kindererziehung; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Emotionale Anpassung; Familienkonflikt; Familienmilieu; Emotionales Verhalten; Korrelation; Konflikt; Großbritannien
Abstract	Addressing a gap in process-oriented understanding of relations between marital conflict and children's adjustment, propositions of the emotional security hypothesis from a family-wide perspective were tested in a longitudinal research design. Participants were 181 families and their 11-12 year-old-child (115 boys, 76 girls) living in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Relations between marital conflict, children's emotional security about marital conflict and parenting, respectively, and children's adjustment were assessed based on reports by mothers, fathers, and children and videotaped analogue procedures completed by children. Structural equation modelling indicated that children's emotional security about interparental conflict (emotional regulation, cognitive representations and behavioural regulation) mediated the relation between marital conflict and children's security about parenting. Processes pertaining to children's security in multiple family systems (i.e., interparental and parent-child) provided an indirect mechanism through which interparental conflict affected children's symptoms of psychological distress (internalising and externalising problems) assessed 12 months later. Future directions for further tests of comprehensive, theoretically based models for the effects of marital conflict on children are discussed. (As Provided).
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