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Maternal Religiosity, Family Resources and Stressors, and Parent-Child Attachment Security in Northern Ireland
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Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Cairns, Ed; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark – Social Development, 2013
This study explores the associations between mothers' religiosity, and families' and children's functioning in a stratified random sample of 695 Catholic and Protestant mother-child dyads in socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a region which has experienced centuries of sectarian conflict between Protestant Unionists and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Religion, Religious Factors, Correlation
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
Political Violence and Child Adjustment: Longitudinal Tests of Sectarian Antisocial Behavior, Family Conflict, and Insecurity as Explanatory Pathways
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Cummings, Edward M.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed – Child Development, 2012
Understanding the impact of political violence on child maladjustment is a matter of international concern. Recent research has advanced a social ecological explanation for relations between political violence and child adjustment. However, conclusions are qualified by the lack of longitudinal tests. Toward examining pathways longitudinally,…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Security (Psychology), Working Class, Antisocial Behavior
Children and Political Violence from a Social Ecological Perspective: Implications from Research on Children and Families in Northern Ireland
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Cummings, Mark E.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Cairns, Ed – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2009
The effects on children of political violence are matters of international concern, with many negative effects well-documented. At the same time, relations between war, terrorism, or other forms of political violence and child development do not occur in a vacuum. The impact can be understood as related to changes in the communities, families and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, War, Terrorism
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
Children: Ethnic and Political Violence--A Commentary.
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Cairns, Ed; Dawes, Andy – Child Development, 1996
Reviews the findings of the eight studies in this special section on children and ethnic/political violence, focusing on the contributions and limitations of research in this area and suggestions for future research. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Child Development, Children