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Children's Representations of Family Relationships, Peer Information Processing, and School Adjustment
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Bascoe, Sonnette M.; Davies, Patrick T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examined children's peer information processing as an explanatory mechanism underlying the association between their insecure representations of interparental and parent-child relationships and school adjustment in a sample of 210 first graders. Consistent with emotional security theory (P. T. Davies & E. M. Cummings, 1994), results…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Student Adjustment, Grade 1, Peer Relationship
Parental Dysphoria and Children's Adjustment: Marital Conflict Styles, Children's Emotional Security, and Parenting as Mediators of Risk
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Du Rocher Schudlich, Tina D.; Cummings, E. Mark – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Dimensions of martial conflict, children's emotional security regarding interparental conflict, and parenting style were examined as mediators between parental dysphoria and child adjustment. A community sample of 262 children, ages 8-16, participated with their parents. Behavioral observations were made of parents' interactions during marital…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Child Rearing, Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles
Marital Conflict, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Children's Dispositions towards Peer Conflict Strategies
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Du Rocher Schudlich, Tina D.; Shamir, Haya; Cummings, E. Mark – Social Development, 2004
The links among marital relations and children's representations were examined. Forty-seven children between the ages of 5 and 8 completed the Family Stories Task (FAST) to obtain their narrative representations of family relations and performed a variation of a puppet procedure (Mize & Ladd, 1988) to assess children's dispositions towards peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Conflict Resolution