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Publication Date: 2006
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Impact of Hostility and Withdrawal in Interparental Conflict on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Children's Adjustment Difficulties
Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, Mark E.
Child Development, v77 n6 p1623-1641 Nov-Dec 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. The results of autoregressive structural equation models indicated that interparental withdrawal had a detrimental impact on all areas of children's adjustment, whereas interparental hostility had an indirect effect on subsequent changes in child adjustment. An intermediary role of parental emotional unavailability in links between interparental withdrawal and hostility and child outcomes was indicated, with specific, differential effects observed for fathers and mothers.
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parent Child Relationship, Withdrawal (Psychology), Mothers, Fathers, Structural Equation Models, Child Behavior, Student Adjustment, Young Children, Parenting Styles, Conflict, Parent Influence, Marital Instability, Emotional Response, Behavior Change, Correlation
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