Adult conflict history and children's subsequent responses to conflict: an experimental test

Article Abstract:

Children's social-cognitive representations of interadult relations are affected by their exposure to conflict history between the adults, according to research involving an experimental test of the sensitization hypothesis, a critical prediction of a number of theories about interparental conflict. In some cases, the impact of conflict history on children was moderated by gender, with destructive conflict histories leading to greater fear and anger responses in subsequent conflict in girls but not in boys. A number of age differences, functioning separately from conflict history, were identified.

Children and adults, Adult-child relations

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Hostility and withdrawal in marital conflict: Effects on parental emotional unavailability and inconsistent discipline

Article Abstract:

The nature of pathways between marital hostility and withdrawal, parental disagreements about child rearing issues, and subsequent changes in parental emotional unavailability and inconsistent discipline is examined. Results of autoregressive, structural equation models indicated that marital withdrawal and hostility were associated with increases in parental emotional unavailability over the one-year-period, but there were no changes in parental inconsistency in discipline.

Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Child rearing, Stigma (Social psychology)

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Children's representations of multiple family relationships: organizational structure and development in early childhood

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A study to examine processes of influence between representations of different family relationships and organization of these representations is conducted. Results suggest that children's representation of marital conflict predict representation of their own reactivity to that conflict, in the context of relatively high stability in representations of conflict and low stability in representations of reactivity to conflict.

Science & research, Research, Domestic relations, Family relations, Report

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