Developmental psychology, 2018-01, Vol.54 (1), p.83-97
2018
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Interparental Conflict and Children's Social Problems: Insecurity and Friendship Affiliation as Cascading Mediators
- Ist Teil von
- Developmental psychology, 2018-01, Vol.54 (1), p.83-97
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: American Psychological Association
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Although social difficulties have been identified as sequelae of children's experiences with interparental conflict and insecurity, little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying their vulnerability to social problems. Guided by emotional security theory, this study tested the hypothesis that children's emotional insecurity mediates associations between interparental conflict and their social difficulties by undermining their affiliative goals in best friendships. Participants included 235 families with the first of 5 measurement occasions over a 10-year period occurring when children were in kindergarten (mean age = 6 years). Findings from the lagged latent difference score analyses indicated that intensification of multi-method assessment of interparental conflict during the early school years predicted subsequent increases in children's emotional insecurity 5 years later in adolescence. In the latter part of the cascade, rises in emotional insecurity predicted decreases in adolescent friendship affiliation, which, in turn, were specifically associated with declines in social competence. The specificity of this cascade of changing processes in predicting social problems was supported by the robustness of the findings after the inclusion of static measures of each construct as predictors, parent-child relationship insecurity as a covariate, and increases in children's internalizing symptoms as an alternative outcome.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0012-1649eISSN: 1939-0599DOI: 10.1037/dev0000410Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5750067
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adolescent, Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Child, Child Behavior - psychology, Childhood Development, Children, Children & youth, Coding, Conflict, Conflict, Psychological, Correlation analysis, Depression (Psychology), Developmental psychology, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Emotional security, Emotions, Family Conflict, Family Conflict - psychology, Family Relations, Fathers, Female, Friends - psychology, Friendship, Friendships, Home environment, Human, Humans, Hypothesis Testing, Insecurity, Interaction, Internalization, Internalizing behaviour, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Interviews, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Measurement, Measures (Individuals), Models, Psychological, Mothers, Parent Influence, Parent-Child Relations, Parental conflict, Parents - psychology, Predictor Variables, Problem Solving, Psychology, Adolescent, Psychology, Child, Psychosocial Development, Rating Scales, Robustness, Scores, Security, Social Adjustment, Social conflict, Social Development, Social problems, Social Skills, Stress Reactions, Stress, Psychological, Surveys, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Verbal Communication, Video Technology, Vulnerability