Marital conflict and boys' peer relationships: The mediating role of mother-son emotional reciprocity.

Lindsey, Eric W.; MacKinnon-Lewis, Carol; Campbell, Jessica J.; Frabutt, James M.; Lamb, Michael E.

doi:10.1037/0893-3200.16.4.466

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“…Given that we recruited this sample from the community and not from a mental health treatment facility, it would be interesting to see if negative affect would have greater connections within families who showed heightened levels of distress. Emotional reciprocity (i.e., the connections between affective experiences between dyads within the family) appears to be a worthwhile topic of exploration (Lindsey et al 2002) and should be explored further within families of both nonclinical and clinical adolescents.…”

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Gender Differences in Positive and Negative Feelings Between Adolescents and Their Fathers and Mothers

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Given the connections between feelings and well-being within the family, we addressed gender differences and similarities of feelings within the family. We explored adolescents', mothers', and fathers' positive and negative affect within a community sample of 224 families from the southeast of the United States. Adolescents ranged in age from 12 to 19 years. Findings suggest more gender differences in positive and negative affect for parental gender (i.e., mothers versus fathers) than for adolescent gender (i.e., boys versus girls). There were more consistent associations within the family for positive affect as opposed to negative affect. We discussed the results in the context of gender differences within the family within the family systems theoretical perspective.

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Gender Differences in Positive and Negative Feelings Between Adolescents and Their Fathers and Mothers

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“…For example, in the larger field of marital conflict and children's peer relations, parents' expressions of negative emotions and regulation of negative affect emerge as important mediators of the link between parents' marital conflict and children's peer relations (Lindsey, MacKinnon-Lewis, Campbell, Frabutt, & Lamb, 2002;Stocker & Youngblade, 1999). Thus, available evidence suggests that interparental conflict relates to children's peer behavior, but that association occurs in a context of more general displays of parents' negative emotions.…”

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Parents’ Aggressive Influences and Children's Aggressive Problem Solutions With Peers

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Margolin

2007

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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This study examined children's aggressive and assertive solutions to hypothetical peer scenarios in relation to parents' responses to similar hypothetical social scenarios and parents' actual marital aggression. The study included 118 children ages 9 to 10 years old and their mothers and fathers. Children's aggressive solutions correlated with same-sex parents' actual marital aggression. For children with mothers who exhibited low actual marital aggression, mothers' aggressive solutions to hypothetical situations corresponded with children's tendencies to propose aggressive but not assertive solutions. In a 3-way interaction, fathers' aggressive solutions to peer scenarios and marital aggression, combined, exacerbated girls' aggressive problem solving but had the opposite effect for boys. We address the complexity, particularly with respect to parent and child gender combinations, in understanding parents' aggressive influences on children's peer relationships.

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“…In particular, parents' and adolescents' initial levels of expressed negative emotion were associated with increases in expression of such emotion by each party over time. In another study involving interactions between mothers and their sons aged 7-9, Lindsey et al (2002) found that it was not the emotional behaviour of either mother or son, but the pattern of reciprocating negative emotions that mediated the relationship between marital conflict and boys' peer relationships. This suggests that in some circumstances it is the emotional quality that emerges during interactions between people that is important in predicting outcomes.…”

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Using an Emotion Regulation Framework to Understand the Role of Temperament and Family Processes in Risk for Adolescent Depressive Disorders

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Allen

Sheeber

2007

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Although recent evidence implicates the importance of the family for understanding depressive disorders during adolescence, we still lack a coherent framework for understanding the way in which the myriad of developmental changes occurring within early adolescents and their family environments actually operate to increase adolescents' vulnerability to, or to protect them from, the development of depressive disorders. In this review we propose a framework that places the mechanisms and processes of emotion regulation at the centre of these questions. We argue that emotion regulation can provide an organising rubric under which the role of various factors, such as adolescent and parent temperament and emotion regulation, and parental socialization of child emotion, as well as the interaction amongst these factors, can be understood to account for the role of the family in adolescents' risk for depression. In particular, we posit that adolescent emotion regulation functions as a mechanism through which temperament and family processes interact to increase vulnerability to developing depression.

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Marital conflict and boys' peer relationships: The mediating role of mother-son emotional reciprocity.

Cited by 29 publications

References 79 publications

Gender Differences in Positive and Negative Feelings Between Adolescents and Their Fathers and Mothers

Gender Differences in Positive and Negative Feelings Between Adolescents and Their Fathers and Mothers

Parents’ Aggressive Influences and Children's Aggressive Problem Solutions With Peers

Using an Emotion Regulation Framework to Understand the Role of Temperament and Family Processes in Risk for Adolescent Depressive Disorders

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