Interparental Conflict and Children's Social Problems: Insecurity and Friendship Affiliation as Cascading Mediators

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Patrick T.; Martin, Meredith J.; Cummings, E. Mark
Titel	Interparental Conflict and Children's Social Problems: Insecurity and Friendship Affiliation as Cascading Mediators
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 1, S.83-97 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000410
Schlagwörter	Parent Influence; Interpersonal Relationship; Conflict; Interpersonal Competence; Friendship; Antisocial Behavior; Hypothesis Testing; Kindergarten; Scores; Predictor Variables; Children; Adolescents; Social Development; Emotional Development; Emotional Response; Interaction; Video Technology; Rating Scales; Aggression; Verbal Communication; Problem Solving; Depression (Psychology); Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Surveys; Interviews; Coding; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Konflikt; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Freundschaft; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Prädiktor; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Soziale Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Emotionales Verhalten; Interaktion; Rating-Skala; Problemlösen; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Codierung; Programmierung
Abstract	Although social difficulties have been identified as sequelae of children's experiences with interparental conflict and insecurity, little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying their vulnerability to social problems. Guided by emotional security theory, this study tested the hypothesis that children's emotional insecurity mediates associations between interparental conflict and their social difficulties by undermining their affiliative goals in best friendships. Participants included 235 families with the first of 5 measurement occasions over a 10-year period occurring when children were in kindergarten (mean age = 6 years). Findings from the lagged latent difference score analyses indicated that intensification of multi-method assessment of interparental conflict during the early school years predicted subsequent increases in children's emotional insecurity 5 years later in adolescence. In the latter part of the cascade, rises in emotional insecurity predicted decreases in adolescent friendship affiliation, which, in turn, were specifically associated with declines in social competence. The specificity of this cascade of changing processes in predicting social problems was supported by the robustness of the findings after the inclusion of static measures of each construct as predictors, parent-child relationship insecurity as a covariate, and increases in children's internalizing symptoms as an alternative outcome. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01