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Longitudinal Pathways between Political Violence and Child Adjustment: The Role of Emotional Security about the Community in Northern Ireland
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Cummings, E. Mark; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
Links between political violence and children's adjustment problems are well-documented. However, the mechanisms by which political tension and sectarian violence relate to children's well-being and development are little understood. This study longitudinally examined children's emotional security about community violence as a possible regulatory…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Psychological Needs, Working Class, Children
Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict, Emotional Security and Children's Prosocial Behavior
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McCoy, Kathleen; Cummings, E. Mark; Davies, Patrick T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: This study addresses the gaps in understanding the relationship between constructive and destructive marital conflict and children's prosocial behavior from a process-oriented perspective. Method: Data were drawn from a three-wave study of 235 families with children ages 5-7 at wave 1. Relations between constructive and destructive…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Prosocial Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Conflict
Political Violence and Child Adjustment in Northern Ireland: Testing Pathways in a Social-Ecological Model Including Single- and Two-Parent Families
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Cummings, E. Mark; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Prosocial Behavior, Children, Foreign Countries
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