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Interparental Conflict as a Curvilinear Risk Factor of Youth Emotional and Cortisol Reactivity
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Davies, Patrick T.; Parry, Lucia Q.; Bascoe, Sonnette M.; Cicchetti, Dante; Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined interparental conflict as a linear and curvilinear predictor of subsequent changes in adolescents' negative emotional reactivity and cortisol functioning during family conflict and, in turn, their psychological difficulties. In addition, adolescents' negative emotional reactivity and cortisol functioning during family conflict…
Descriptors: Parents, Interpersonal Relationship, Conflict, Predictor Variables
Marital Conflict in the Context of Parental Depressive Symptoms: Implications for the Development of Children's Adjustment Problems
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Keller, Peggy S.; Cummings, E. Mark; Peterson, Kristina M.; Davies, Patrick T. – Social Development, 2009
Relations among parental depressive symptoms, overt and covert marital conflict, and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms were examined in a community sample of 235 couples and their children. Families were assessed once yearly for three years, starting when children were in kindergarten. Parents completed measures of depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Conflict, Depression (Psychology), Fathers, Mothers
Parental Depressive Symptoms, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Child Adjustment
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Cummings, E. Mark; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Keller, Peggy S.; Davies, Patrick T. – Social Development, 2008
This study extends the investigation of family process models of parental dysphoria and child adjustment, by examining depressive symptoms in both fathers and mothers, and by examining children's representations of family relationships as possible explanatory mechanisms. Participants were 232 children (Time 1 mean age: 5.99; 105 boys, 127 girls)…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Attachment Behavior, Family Relationship, Depression (Psychology)
Mothers' and Fathers' Psychological Symptoms and Marital Functioning: Examination of Direct and Interactive Links with Child Adjustment
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Papp, Lauren M.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Cummings, E. Mark – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2004
A community sample of 51 mother-father dyads with a school-age child rated marital functioning, parental psychological symptoms, and children's adjustment problems. Parents with more psychological symptoms reported lower marital satisfaction levels. Mothers' and fathers' marital functioning and symptomatology individually related to children's…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Psychopathology, Emotional Adjustment