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Direct linkDavies, Patrick T.; Manning, Liviah G.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether children’s difficulties with stage-salient tasks served as an explanatory mechanism in the pathway between their insecurity in the interparental relationship and their disruptive behavior problems. Using a multimethod, multi-informant design, 201 two-year-old children and their mothers participated in 3 annual…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models
Ellis, Bruce J.; Essex, Marilyn J. – Child Development, 2007
Life history theorists have proposed that humans have evolved to be sensitive to specific features of early childhood environments and that exposure to different environments biases children toward development of different reproductive strategies, including differential pubertal timing. The current research provides a longitudinal test of this…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Metabolism, Adolescent Development, Body Composition
Peer reviewedHolden, George W.; Ritchie, Kathy L. – Child Development, 1991
Investigated relations of marital discord and parental and child behavior for battered women and comparison mothers and their children. Found differences in level of stress and inconsistency in parenting between the groups of mothers. Children from violent families were reported to have more internalizing behavior problems than comparison…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing, Family Violence
Peer reviewedFincham, Frank D. – Child Development, 1998
Examines aspects of the marital relationship and its assessment relevant to scholars of child development. Reviews current knowledge regarding marital quality, behavior, emotional responding, and cognition in marriage. Makes recommendations for assessment and argues that the child's perspective of the marriage is critical for understanding…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Developmental Psychology, Evaluation
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
Peer reviewedHarold, Gordon T.; Conger, Rand D. – Child Development, 1997
Studied role of adolescents' awareness in relationship between marital conflict and adolescent distress. Found marital conflict was related to parental hostility toward adolescents and adolescents' awareness of conflict; parental hostility and adolescents' awareness of marital conflict were related to adolescent-perceived parental hostility. Found…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Marital Instability
Peer reviewedConger, Rand D.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Used observations and family reports to examine the relationships between family economic stress factors and adjustment of adolescent boys. Economic pressures were associated with parental demoralization, which was related to marital conflict and disruptions in parenting. Disruptions in child-rearing behavior had adverse consequences for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Child Rearing, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedBelsky, Jay; And Others – Child Development, 1991
The concept of reproductive strategy is applied to the study of childhood experience and interpersonal development to develop an evolutionary theory of socialization. The relationship between this theory and prevailing theories of socialization is considered, and research consistent with the evolutionary theory is reviewed. Discusses directions…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adults, Attachment Behavior
