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Marital Conflict and Trajectories of Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Autonomic Nervous System Coordination
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Philbrook, Lauren E.; Erath, Stephen A.; Hinnant, J. Benjamin; El-Sheikh, Mona – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study investigates how coordination between stress responsivity of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) moderates the prospective effects of marital conflict on internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Although an important avenue for psychophysiological research concerns how…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Conflict, Adolescents, Stress Variables
Dynamic Patterns of Marital Conflict: Relations to Trajectories of Adolescent Adjustment
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El-Sheikh, Mona; Shimizu, Mina; Erath, Stephen A.; Philbrook, Lauren E.; Hinnant, J. Benjamin – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The deleterious effects of marital conflict on youth outcomes are well-documented in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. To date, longitudinal studies have focused on repeated measures of youths' outcomes and the temporal dynamics of marital conflict have largely been ignored. Marital conflict changes over time as contextual and…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Marital Instability, Conflict, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Marital Conflict and Children's Externalizing Behavior: Interactions between Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous System Activity
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El-Sheikh, Mona; Kouros, Chrystyna D.; Erath, Stephen; Cummings, E. Mark; Keller, Peggy; Staton, Lori – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2009
Toward greater specificity in the prediction of externalizing problems in the context of interparental conflict, interactions between children's parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system (PNS and SNS) activity were examined as moderators. PNS activity was indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and RSA reactivity (RSA-R) to lab…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Conflict, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Marital Conflict and Risk for Child Maladjustment over Time: Skin Conductance Level Reactivity as a Vulnerability Factor
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El-Sheikh, Mona; Keller, Peggy S.; Erath, Stephen A. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a longitudinal mediator and moderator of relations between parental marital conflict and psychopathology among children and young adolescents. Participants were 157 boys and girls (M age at T1 = 9.31 years; SD = 1.97); there was a 2-year lag between T1 and T2 assessments. At T1,…
Descriptors: Conflict, Marital Instability, Parents, Risk
Marital Conflict and Disruption of Children's Sleep
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El-Sheikh, Mona; Buckhalt, Joseph, A.; Mize, Jacquelyn; Acebo, Christine – Child Development, 2006
Marital conflict was examined as a predictor of the quality and quantity of sleep in a sample of healthy 8 to 9 year-olds. Parents and children reported on marital conflict, the quantity and quality of children's sleep were examined through an actigraph worn for 7 consecutive nights, and child sleepiness was derived from child and mother reports.…
Descriptors: Conflict, Marital Instability, Sleep, Predictor Variables
The Role of Emotional Responses and Physiological Reactivity in the Marital Conflict-Child Functioning Link
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El-Sheikh, Mona – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Children's emotional responses and physiological reactivity to conflict were examined as mediators and moderators in the associations between exposure to parental marital conflict and child adjustment and cognitive problems. Method: One hundred and eighty elementary school children participated. In response to a simulated argument,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Females, Emotional Response, Family Characteristics