Parental Conflict Resolution Styles and Children's Adjustment: Children's Appraisals and Emotion Regulation as Mediators

Siffert, Andrea; Schwarz, Beate

doi:10.1080/00221325.2010.503723

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“…A possible explanation for these non-significant associations is the low variance of the scale, given that most early adolescents in our study did not blame themselves for marital conflict (see Table 1). This methodological argument is underlined by findings from another study with the same data set which did not find a relationship between self-blame and internalizing and externalizing problems of the early adolescents (Siffert and Schwarz 2011a).…”

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Marital Conflict and Early Adolescents’ Self-Evaluation: The Role of Parenting Quality and Early Adolescents’ Appraisals

Siffert

Schwarz

Stutz

2011

J Youth Adolescence

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Cognitive appraisals and family dynamics have been identified as mediators of the relationship between marital conflict and children's adjustment. Surprisingly little research has investigated both meditational processes in the same study. Guided by the cognitive-contextual framework and the spillover hypothesis, the present study integrated factors from both theories early adolescents' appraisals of threat and self-blame, as well as perceived parenting quality as mediators of the link between early adolescents' perception of marital conflict and their self-evaluations (self-esteem and scholastic competence). Analyses were based on the first two waves of an ongoing longitudinal study. Participants were 176 two-parent families, and their early adolescents (50.5% girls) whose mean age was 10.61 years at Time 1 (SD =0.40) and 11.63 years at Time 2 (SD=0.39). Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that parenting quality and early adolescents' perceived threat provided indirect pathways between marital conflict and early adolescents' self-esteem 1 year later when controlling for their initial level of self-esteem. With respect to scholastic competence, only fathers' parenting was an indirect link. Self-blame did not play a role. Implications for understanding the mechanisms by which exposure to marital conflict predicts early adolescents' maladjustment are discussed.

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Marital Conflict and Early Adolescents’ Self-Evaluation: The Role of Parenting Quality and Early Adolescents’ Appraisals

Siffert

Schwarz

Stutz

2011

J Youth Adolescence

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“…To test the study hypotheses, a hierarchical multinomial logistic regression was conducted in Mplus, Version 6.11 (Muthén & Muthén, 1998-2011. A multinomial logistic regression was required because the resolution variable was nominal with three categories; compromise, win-loss, and standoff.…”

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Characteristics of mother−child conflict and child sex predicting resolution.

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Sang³

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Journal of Family Psychology

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Data from 190 mothers and their 5- to 7-year-old children were used to evaluate how characteristics of mother-child conflict discussions contribute to the likelihood of reaching a compromise, a win-loss resolution, or a standoff. Dyads discussed 2 topics they reported having disagreements about that were emotionally arousing. Coders rated global measurements of mothers' emotional responsiveness, intrusiveness, and negativity; children's negativity; and the frequency of mothers' and children's constructive and oppositional comments. Child sex was examined as a moderator of the relation between discussion characteristics and resolution reached. Results indicated that more constructive comments by mothers and children increased the likelihood of reaching a resolution versus a standoff, but only children's constructive comments differentiated between a compromise and a win-loss resolution favoring mothers. Dyads with more emotionally responsive mothers who made fewer oppositional comments were also more likely to reach a compromise versus a win-loss resolution. A significant interaction with child sex revealed that, for boys, the use of more child oppositional comments was associated with a higher likelihood of reaching a standoff versus a compromise. Girls' oppositional comments did not predict resolution type. These results are discussed in terms of the children's developmental level and parents' socialization goals.

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“…Evidence from efficacy trials of this brief prevention program is promising, with participants experiencing decreased interparental conflict, increased marital satisfaction, and increased child adjustment after four psychoeducational sessions relative to control groups (Cummings et al, 2008). By emphasizing strategies to reduce hostility and anger during interparental conflict while simultaneously promoting emotional support and positive resolution tactics, such prevention programs are likely to support adolescent adjustment by minimizing distressing features of interparental conflict (Cummings & Davies, 2002; Cummings et al, 2008; Siffert & Schwarz, 2011; Zhou & Buehler, 2017). …”

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Evaluating school and peer protective factors in the effects of interparental conflict on adolescent threat appraisals and self‐efficacy

McCauley

Weymouth

Feinberg

et al. 2018

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Recent work has sought to understand how family-specific risk, such as exposure to interparental conflict, may generalize to developmentally-salient processes in adolescence. A cascade model has been identified in which conflict-specific threat appraisals may erode adolescents’ self-efficacy over time, and in turn, undermine their psychological well-being. The goal of this study was to integrate success in the school and peer contexts as potential contextual protective factors that may mitigate the effects of interparental conflict on self-efficacy. Methods: We tested the additive and interactive effects of success in school and peer contexts on adolescent self-efficacy to better understand these ecological contextual factors for a family risk model. Analyses were conducted using structural equation modeling with a sample of 768 two-parent U.S. families across three measurement occasions. Interparental conflict, threat appraisals, self-efficacy, and school success and peer support were measured using multiple, established scales. Results: Results supported the additive effects model, in that school success and peer support significantly contributed to general self-efficacy above and beyond the effects of threat appraisals of interparental conflict, but did not moderate the association between threat appraisals and self-efficacy. Conclusions: Findings indicate that strengths in school and peer contexts have potential to compensate for, but do not appear to buffer, the negative effects of threat appraisals of inter-parental conflict and underscore the importance of these contexts for understanding multifinality in outcomes of adolescents exposed to interparental conflict.

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Parental Conflict Resolution Styles and Children's Adjustment: Children's Appraisals and Emotion Regulation as Mediators

Cited by 43 publications

References 39 publications

Marital Conflict and Early Adolescents’ Self-Evaluation: The Role of Parenting Quality and Early Adolescents’ Appraisals

Marital Conflict and Early Adolescents’ Self-Evaluation: The Role of Parenting Quality and Early Adolescents’ Appraisals

Characteristics of mother−child conflict and child sex predicting resolution.

Evaluating school and peer protective factors in the effects of interparental conflict on adolescent threat appraisals and self‐efficacy

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