Child Response Processes as Mediators of the Association between Caregiver Intimate Relationship Instability and Children's Externalizing Symptoms

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Coe, Jesse L.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Martin, Meredith J.
Titel	Child Response Processes as Mediators of the Association between Caregiver Intimate Relationship Instability and Children's Externalizing Symptoms
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 6, S.1244-1258 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000717
Schlagwörter	Behavior Problems; Structural Equation Models; Interpersonal Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Occupational Mobility; Relocation; Preschool Children; Family Relationship; Conflict; Grade 1; Kindergarten; Elementary School Students; Mother Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Correlation; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Career Change; Security (Psychology); Place of Residence; Longitudinal Studies; Predictor Variables; Attachment Behavior; Task Analysis; Persistence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Berufliche Mobilität; Umsetzung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Konflikt; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Mutterliebe; Lehrerverhalten; Korrelation; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Wohnort; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prädiktor; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausdauer
Abstract	Guided primarily by life history theory, this study was designed to identify how and why early exposure to caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicts children's externalizing symptoms in the context of other dimensions of unpredictability characterized by residential and parental job transitions. Participants included 243 preschool children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years) and their mothers who participated in 3 annual measurement occasions (i.e., preschool, kindergarten, first grade). Supporting the first link in the hypothesized mediational chain, the results of structural equation modeling analyses indicated that caregiver intimate relationship instability uniquely predicted a pattern of response processes over a 1-year period characterized by negative family representations, dominant interpersonal strategies for regulating resources, and diminished task persistence. Latent difference score analyses of each of these response processes over the 1-year period, in turn, uniquely predicted a multiinformant (i.e., mother, teacher, experimenter) assessment of children's externalizing symptoms over a 2-year period. Mediational findings were robust after accounting for the negligible roles of residential and occupational changes as simultaneous predictors. Results are interpreted in the context of how they inform and support life history theory as well as other conceptual (e.g., attachment and emotional security theory) models. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01