Marital conflict and children's externalizing behavior: interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity.
Marital conflict and children's externalizing behavior: interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1540-5834.2009.00501.x
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
9.5
通讯作者:
Staton L
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作者:
El-Sheikh M;Kouros CD;Erath S;Cummings EM;Keller P;Staton L
The association between children’s exposure to marital conflict and externalizing behavior has been thoroughly documented in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies with diverse methodologies (for a review, see Cummings & Davies, 2002). The current “second generation” of marital conflict research aims to investigate the mechanisms explaining the impact of marital conflict on children’s externalizing behaviors and other adjustment problems (Davies, Harold, Goeke-Morey, & Cummings, 2002). Emotional security (Davies & Cummings, 2006), social learning (Bandura, 1977), cognitive–contextual (Grych & Fincham, 1990), and specific emotions (Crockenberg & Langrock, 2001) theories have each elucidated processes through which marital conflict can promote aggressive and dysregulated behavior. However, few studies have attempted to account for individual differences in the relation between marital conflict and child adjustment, aside from investigations of age and gender as moderators, and even fewer studies have examined physiological activity as a moderator of effects in this context.Despite the relatively robust nature of the association between marital conflict and externalizing problems, many children exposed to marital conflict do not develop externalizing problems, and even among children who do exhibit externalizing behavior in the context of marital conflict, significant variability exists (Cummings & Davies, 2002). Steinberg and Avenevoli (2000) posited that individual differences in physiological responding might modulate the type and degree of maladjustment among children exposed to environmental stress such as marital conflict. That is, certain patterns of arousal and regulation, both inherited and acquired through experience, may operate as vulnerability or protective factors in the context of marital conflict. In this monograph, we focus on the two main branches of the autonomic nervous system (ANS): the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems (SNS and PNS). The SNS and PNS are key components of the human stress response system and may be individual difference variables that increase or decrease susceptibility to externalizing problems associated with marital conflict (El-Sheikh, 2005a). Indeed, although influenced by environmental stress during early childhood, recent studies indicate moderate stability in ANS responding by middle childhood, including evidence for stability of PNS activity (respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]; El-Sheikh, 2005b) and SNS activity (skin conductance level [SCL]; El-Sheikh, 2007). Accordingly, ANS functioning is a potential individual difference factor at the level of physiological
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