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Direct linkDavies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Martin, Meredith J.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2021
This study examined whether childhood interparental conflict moderated the mediational pathway involving adolescent exposure to interparental conflict, their negative emotional reactivity to family conflict, and their psychological problems in a sample of 235 children (M[subscript age] = 6 years). Significant moderated-mediation findings indicated…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Conflict, Parent Influence, Child Development
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
Davies, Patrick T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Bascoe, Sonnette M.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2014
This study tested whether the mediational pathway involving interparental conflict, adolescent emotional insecurity, and their psychological problems was altered by their earlier childhood histories of insecurity. Participants included 230 families, with the first of the five measurement occasions occurring when children were in first grade…
Descriptors: Parents, Conflict, Adolescents, Emotional Development
Bascoe, Sonnette M.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2012
Translating relationship boundaries conceptualizations to the study of sibling relationships, this study examined the utility of sibling enmeshment and disengagement in predicting child adjustment difficulties in a sample of 282 mothers and adolescents (mean age = 12.7 years). Mothers completed a semistructured interview at the first measurement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conflict, Sibling Relationship, Siblings
Peer reviewedDavies, Patrick T.; Forman, Evan M. – Child Development, 2002
Two studies assessed school-aged children's reactivity to parental conflict simulations and adolescents' reactions to actual marital conflict. Three profiles of reactions were identified: secure children, insecure-preoccupied children, and insecure- dismissing children. Findings in both studies indicated that preoccupied children evidenced the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Conflict, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedDavies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Child Development, 2001
Examined whether associations between marital discord and trajectories of adolescent depression and delinquency varied as a function of intrapersonal attributes. Found that difficult temperament potentiated effects of marital discord on adjustment trajectories. Heightened perceived family support protected adolescents from adverse marital discord…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems
Peer reviewedDavies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Studied interrelationships between dating patterns and trajectories of psychosocial functioning over a year in middle adolescents. Found that increasing casual dating was associated with rising problem behaviors and improved close friendship quality; pathways culminating in steady relationships were accompanied by increasing friendship discord,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Forman, Evan M.; Davies, Patrick T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Although delineating the processes by which children appraise the family as a source of security from their collective experiences in the family subsystem has assumed center stage in many conceptualizations of child development, the dearth of measures of child adaptation in the family system has hindered empirical advances. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Conflict, Caregivers, Validity
Peer reviewedDavies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined relations among maternal depressive symptoms, family discord, and adolescent psychological adjustment. Found that maternal depressive symptoms were related to subsequent adolescent depressive symptoms, conduct problems, and academic difficulties for girls but not boys. Girls' greater vulnerability to family discord accounted for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems
