Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• JOURILES, E. N
• SPILLER, L. C
• STEPHENS, N
• RENEE
• MCDONALD
• SWANK, P

Titel

Variability in adjustment of children of battered women : The role of child appraisals of interparent conflict

Ist Teil von

• Cognitive therapy and research, 2000-04, Vol.24 (2), p.233-249

Ort / Verlag

Heidelberg: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study evaluates relations between children's appraisals of interparent conflict and child adjustment problems in families characterized by extreme interparent violence. Participants were 154 children (age 8-12) and their mothers. Children completed measures of their appraisals of interparent conflict (self-blame, threat, fear of abandonment) and mothers and children completed indices of child adjustment. Our results indicate that child self-blaming for interparent conflict correlates positively with mothers' reports of externalizing child problems. Self-blame, threat, and fear of abandonment appraisals each correlate positively with child self-reports of anxiety/depression. In addition, child age moderates relations between each of the measured child appraisals and mothers' reports of child adjustment problems, with the appraisals being more positively related to problems of older children.