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Koss, Kalsea J.; George, Melissa R. W.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante; Cummings, E. Mark; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Examining children's physiological functioning is an important direction for understanding the links between interparental conflict and child adjustment. Utilizing growth mixture modeling, the present study examined children's cortisol reactivity patterns in response to a marital dispute. Analyses revealed three different patterns of cortisol…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Coping, Parents
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Davies, Patrick T.; Coe, Jesse L.; Martin, Meredith J.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Building on empirical documentation of children's involvement in interparental conflicts as a weak predictor of psychopathology, we tested the hypothesis that involvement in conflict more consistently serves as a moderator of associations between children's emotional reactivity to interparental conflict and their psychological problems. In Study…
Descriptors: Parents, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychopathology, Hypothesis Testing
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Winter, Marcia A.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
This multimethod study examined the association between family instability and children's internal representations of security in the family system within the context of maternal communications about disruptive family events. Participants included 224 kindergarten children (100 boys and 124 girls) and their parents. Parents reported on the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Kindergarten, Communications, Family Problems