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Jacques, Debrielle T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Prior work suggests that substance-dependent mothers insensitively respond to their child's emotional needs, which can increase children's risk for psychopathology. However, the mechanisms and processes underlying these associations remain unclarified. Mothers' insensitivity to children's distress is an especially unique predictor of child…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Addictive Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Martin, Meredith J.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Romero, Christine V. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study examined the consequences of negative change in mothers' implicit appraisals of their adolescents after engaging in a family disagreement. Participants included 194 mothers and their early adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.4 at Wave 1; 50% female) followed over 1 year. Mothers' implicit appraisals of her child as "unlovable"…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Attitude Change, Family Environment
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Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, Mark E. – Child Development, 2006
This multimethod, prospective study examined the nature of pathways between interparental hostility and withdrawal, parental emotional unavailability, and subsequent changes in children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and school adjustment difficulties over a 3-year period in a sample of 210 mothers, fathers, and 6-year-old children.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parent Child Relationship, Withdrawal (Psychology), Mothers