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Adolescents' Cognitive and Emotional Responses to Marital Hostility
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Buehler, Cheryl; Lange, Garrett; Franck, Karen L. – Child Development, 2007
Early adolescents' (11-14 years) responses to marital hostility were examined in a sample of 416 families. The cognitive-contextual perspective and emotional security hypothesis guided the study and 9 adolescent responses were identified. Prospective associations were examined in several structural equation models that included adolescent problems…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Psychological Needs, Adolescents, Structural Equation Models
Cognitive and Parenting Pathways in the Transmission of Antisocial Behavior from Parents to Adolescents
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Dogan, Shannon J.; Conger, Rand D.; Kim, Kee Jeong; Masyn, Katherine E. – Child Development, 2007
This study examined the role of adolescent perceptions of parental behavior and disrupted parenting in the continuity of antisocial behavior across generations. Participants included 430 adolescents and their biological parents assessed during the period from the 9th to 12th grades (9th grade age in years: M=15.09, SD=0.43). Structural equation…
Descriptors: Parents, Child Rearing, Structural Equation Models, Antisocial Behavior
A Mediational Model for the Impact of Exposure to Community Violence on Early Child Behavior Problems.
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Linares, L. Oriana; Heeren, Timothy; Bronfman, Elisa – Child Development, 2001
Structural equation modeling was used to examine how maternal distress mediated the link between exposure to community violence (CV) and development of early child behavior problems. Findings indicated that direct CV-early child behavior problems path diminished when maternal distress was included in the model, after controlling for maternal SES…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Models, Mothers, Parent Influence
Latent Growth Curves within Developmental Structural Equation Models.
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McArdle, J. J.; Epstein, David – Child Development, 1987
Uses structural equation modeling to combine traditional ideas from repeated-measures ANOVA with some traditional ideas from longitudinal factor analysis. The model describes a latent growth curve model that permits the estimation of parameters representing individual and group dynamics. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Impact of Hostility and Withdrawal in Interparental Conflict on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Children's Adjustment Difficulties
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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
The Relations of Parenting, Effortful Control, and Ego Control to Children's Emotional Expressivity.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Zhou, Qing; Losoya, Sandra H.; Fabes, Richard A.; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Murphy, Bridget, C.; Reiser, Mark; Guthrie, Ivanna K.; Cumberland, Amanda – Child Development, 2003
Examined longitudinal relations of observed parental warmth and positive expressivity and children's effortful control and ego control with children's high versus low emotional expressivity. Found that moderate child expressivity related to high effortful control. Children's ego overcontrol mediated relations between parental warmth/positive…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Emotional Development