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Direct linkMartin, Monica J.; Conger, Rand D.; Robins, Richard W. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The present study examines the influence of economic and family stress processes on change in drug and alcohol use in a cohort of 478 Mexican American youth (50.8% female) followed longitudinally beginning in Grade 5 when the youth averaged 10.4 years of age. Adolescents, their mothers (median age 36 at Grade 5), and their fathers (median age 39…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Preadolescents
Mannering, Anne M.; Harold, Gordon T.; Leve, Leslie D.; Shelton, Katherine H.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Conger, Rand D.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Scaramella, Laura V.; Reiss, David – Child Development, 2011
This study examined the longitudinal association between marital instability and child sleep problems at ages 9 and 18 months in 357 families with a genetically unrelated infant adopted at birth. This design eliminates shared genes as an explanation for similarities between parent and child. Structural equation modeling indicated that T1 marital…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Structural Equation Models, Sleep, Young Children
Taylor, Zoe E.; Larsen-Rife, Dannelle; Conger, Rand D.; Widaman, Keith F. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
The present investigation examined the relations between the cultural belief of familism and various aspects of family functioning and child adjustment, including interparental conflict, parenting, and children's attachment to school, in a sample of 549 two-parent Mexican-origin families. The results indicated that parents' familistic values were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Conflict, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
Cui, Ming; Conger, Rand D. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2008
The present study examines the mediating and moderating effects of parenting behavior on the relation between marital problems and adolescent maladjustment. Extending earlier studies by using a prospective, longitudinal research design and multi-informant methods, this study of 451 adolescents and their families from the Iowa Youth and Families…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Research Design, Child Rearing, Adolescents
Cui, Ming; Donnellan, M. Brent; Conger, Rand D. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The present study examines reciprocal associations between marital functioning and adolescent maladjustment using cross-lagged autoregressive models. The research involved 451 early adolescents and their families and used a prospective, longitudinal research design with multi-informant methods. Results indicate that parental conflicts over child…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Family Environment, Conflict, Child Rearing
Peer reviewedConger, Rand D.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990
Examined the negative impact of economic hardship on a spouse's marital instability in White, middle-class couples (N=76). The results indicated economic pressures had an indirect association with married couples' evaluation of the marriage by promoting hostility in marital interactions and curtailing the warm and supportive behaviors spouses…
Descriptors: Affection, Behavior Patterns, Financial Problems, Hostility
Peer reviewedHarold, Gordon T.; Conger, Rand D. – Child Development, 1997
Studied role of adolescents' awareness in relationship between marital conflict and adolescent distress. Found marital conflict was related to parental hostility toward adolescents and adolescents' awareness of conflict; parental hostility and adolescents' awareness of marital conflict were related to adolescent-perceived parental hostility. Found…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Marital Instability
Cui, Ming; Conger, Rand D.; Lorenz, Frederick O. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The present prospective, longitudinal study of 451 adolescents and their parents extends earlier research by investigating whether change in marital problems predicts change in adolescent adjustment, after controlling for other marital problems and socioeconomic status. Latent growth curves over a period of 5 years were used, and the results…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parents, Adjustment (to Environment), Marital Instability
Peer reviewedConger, Rand D.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Used observations and family reports to examine the relationships between family economic stress factors and adjustment of adolescent boys. Economic pressures were associated with parental demoralization, which was related to marital conflict and disruptions in parenting. Disruptions in child-rearing behavior had adverse consequences for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Child Rearing, Depression (Psychology)
