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Direct linkEl-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)
Bachman, Heather J.; Coley, Rebekah Levine; Carrano, Jennifer – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
The present study investigated associations between maternal relationship instability patterns and children's behavioral and emotional functioning in middle childhood in a representative sample of low-income urban families (N = 891). Data from the "Three-City Study" tracked maternal partnerships through the child's life, assessing total marital…
Descriptors: Low Income, Low Income Groups, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation
Isabella, Russell A.; Diener, Marissa L. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Self-representations of 1st-, 3rd-, and 5th-graders' social and academic competence were examined in relation to children's personal (grade/age); family (attachment to parents, marital conflict, anxiety related to conflict); and school (teacher appraisals) contexts. Children who reported higher levels of security of attachment to parents and lower…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Grade 1, Grade 3
Peer reviewedJekielek, Susan M. – Social Forces, 1998
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on 1,640 children aged 6-14 indicate that children's anxiety and depression/withdrawal were increased by prior parental marital conflict or disruption. Children remaining in high-conflict environments generally exhibited lower levels of well-being than children with high-conflict experience whose parents…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Divorce, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedMontgomery, Marilyn J.; DeBell, Camille; Wilkins, Judith – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1998
Presents a method of working with both parents and the child that provides supportive therapy for the child while intervening with the parents to provide developmental information, identify marital issues the child might be mirroring, offer benign interpretations of the child's difficulties to counter often-held anxious views of the problem, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Development, Counseling Techniques, Evaluation
Shelton, Katherine H.; Harold, Gordon T. – Social Development, 2007
This prospective, longitudinal study examined the role of children's coping strategies in the link between interparental conflict and children's psychological adjustment. Using a sample of 100 parents and children aged 11-14 years, this study investigated children's venting of negative emotion, social support seeking, and problem solving…
Descriptors: Intervention, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Coping
Pilowsky, Daniel J.; Wickramaratne, Priya; Nomura, Yoko; Weissman, Myrna M. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To determine the independent effects of parental depression and family discord on offspring psychopathology among children at high and low risk of depression. Method: Family discord factors were assessed when subjects were approximately 17 years old, and offspring diagnoses were assessed about 20 years later. Parental and offspring…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Divorce, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedEsmon, Aaron H. – Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1971
Contrary to folk belief, children are in themselves no correction for basic flaws in an unsuccessful marriage. Explored are the ways in which specific aspects of marital conflict and pathology can induce specific aberrations in the personality development of the child. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances
Ciborowski, Paul J. – 1984
This document contains a leader's guide for a program for children of divorce between the ages of 11 and 18, and a manual written for the children and adolescents participating in the program. The leader's guide contains an index to all 12 sessions and the activities for each session. Five units are included: (1) a summary of the state of the art…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Custody, Childhood Needs, Divorce
