Marital Discord and Child Behavior Problems : Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Child Interpersonal Awareness as Mediator  

Oleh:

Harrist, Amanda W. ; Ainslie, Ricardo C.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Family Issues vol. 19 no. 2 (Mar. 1998), page 140-163.
Topik: MARITAL STATUS; marital discord; child behaviour; awareness; mediator
Fulltext: 140.pdf (2.35MB)

Isi artikel

To date, specific mechanisms at work in the link between marital discord and children's problematic behaviour remain unclear. In the present study, three types of variables - marital discord (nonconsensus and arguing - related stress), parent - child relationship quality (global quality and daily time spent together), and child interpersonal awareness (ability to infer emotions in social situations) - were used as predictors of children's social behavioral profiles in a sample of 45 5 - year - olds. Regression analyses were conducted to assess the efficacy of a mediational model for predicting child behaviour problems from marital discord. Evidence was found for indirect relations between marital discord and both social withdrawal and aggression : Marital discord predicted lower quality parent - child relationships, which, in turn, predicted high levels of child aggression. For child social withdrawal, the prediction from marital discord was mediated by both parent - child relationship quality and child interpersonal awareness.

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