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Cummings, E. Mark; George, Melissa R. W.; McCoy, Kathleen P.; Davies, Patrick T. – Child Development, 2012
Advancing the long-term prospective study of explanations for the effects of marital conflict on children's functioning, relations were examined between interparental conflict in kindergarten, children's emotional insecurity in the early school years, and subsequent adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. Based on a community sample…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Kindergarten, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
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Varner, Fatima; Mandara, Jelani – Child Development, 2013
Discrimination concerns and parental expectations were examined as mediators of the relations between gender and parenting practices among 796 African American mothers of 11- to 14-year-olds from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study. Mothers of sons had more concerns about racial discrimination impacting their adolescents' future,…
Descriptors: African American Family, Socialization, Gender Differences, Child Rearing
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Boxer, Paul; Huesmann, L. Rowell; Dubow, Eric F.; Landau, Simha F.; Gvirsman, Shira Dvir; Shikaki, Khalil; Ginges, Jeremy – Child Development, 2013
Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model proposes that events in higher order social ecosystems should influence human development through their impact on events in lower order social ecosystems. This proposition was tested with respect to ecological violence and the development of children's aggression via analyses of 3 waves of data (1 wave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Conflict, Observation
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Davies, Patrick T.; Manning, Liviah G.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether children’s difficulties with stage-salient tasks served as an explanatory mechanism in the pathway between their insecurity in the interparental relationship and their disruptive behavior problems. Using a multimethod, multi-informant design, 201 two-year-old children and their mothers participated in 3 annual…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models
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Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante; Martin, Meredith J. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined specific forms of emotional reactivity to conflict and temperamental emotionality as explanatory mechanisms in pathways among interparental aggression and child psychological problems. Participants of the multimethod, longitudinal study included 201 two-year-old children and their mothers who had experienced elevated violence…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Personality Traits
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Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, Mark E. – Child Development, 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.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parent Child Relationship, Withdrawal (Psychology), Mothers