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Resilience among Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: The Role of Risk and Protective Factors
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Martinez-Torteya, Cecilia; Bogat, G. Anne; von Eye, Alexander; Levendosky, Alytia A. – Child Development, 2009
Individual and family characteristics that predict resilience among children exposed to domestic violence (DV) were examined. Mother-child dyads (n = 190) were assessed when the children were 2, 3, and 4 years of age. DV-exposed children were 3.7 times more likely than nonexposed children to develop internalizing or externalizing problems.…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Mothers, Family Characteristics, Personality Traits
Development of Inhibited Children's Coping with Unfamiliarity.
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Asendorpf, Jens B. – Child Development, 1991
A total of 87 children were observed in play with unfamiliar peers at 4, 6, and 8 years of age, and judged by their parents for inhibition. Observed inhibited behavior and parental judgments of inhibition became increasingly associated with solitary-passive activity. With increasing age, inhibited children spent longer periods in solitary-passive…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Coping, Foreign Countries, Inhibition
Impact of Child Maltreatment and Interadult Violence on Children's Emotion Regulation Abilities and Socioemotional Adjustment.
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Maughan, Angeline; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2002
Examined the effects of child maltreatment and interadult violence on children's developing strategies of emotion regulation and socioemotional development, and the role of emotion dysregulation in mediating the link between children's pathogenic relational experiences and behavioral outcomes for 3- to 6-year-olds. Found that maltreatment history…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Abuse, Coping, Depression (Psychology)
Maternal Separation Anxiety: Its Developmental Course and Relation to Maternal Mental Health.
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Hock, Ellen; Schirtzinger, Mary Beth – Child Development, 1992
Examined potential differences in psychological correlates between mothers with high and low levels of separation anxiety when their children were 8 months, 3.5 years, and 6 years of age. Mothers with extremely high levels of anxiety about short-term separation from their six year olds tended to have higher levels of depressive symptomatology.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development