Young children's appraisals of interparental conflict: Measurement and links with adjustment problems
Young children's appraisals of interparental conflict: Measurement and links with adjustment problems
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DOI：
10.1037/0893-3200.20.1.88
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Grych, JH
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作者：
McDonald, R;Grych, JH
本研究调查了与理解儿童冲突评价的发展方面有关的两个问题：(a) 7 至 9 岁的儿童能否可靠地区分他们对冲突的看法以及对威胁和自责的评价？ (b) 威胁和责备评估是否介导了该年龄段的父母间冲突与适应问题之间的关联？针对年龄较小的儿童设计的新版《儿童对父母间冲突的感知量表》(CPIC-Y) 的因子分析表明，179 名 7 至 9 岁的儿童能够区分冲突的性质和他们对冲突的评价。此外，正如认知语境框架所预测的那样，威胁和自责评估调节了冲突与内化问题之间的联系，而不是外化问题。这项研究提供了令人信服的证据，表明对父母间冲突的评估可以在相对较小的年龄进行可靠的衡量，并表明对威胁和自责的看法在 7 至 9 岁的孩子中的作用与在年龄较大的孩子中的作用相似。
The present study investigated 2 questions pertinent to understanding developmental aspects of children's conflict appraisals: (a) Do 7- to 9-year-old children make reliable distinctions between their perceptions of conflict and their appraisals of threat and self-blame? (b) Do threat and blame appraisals mediate the association between exposure to interparental conflict and adjustment problems in this age group? Factor analysis of a new version of the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC-Y) designed for younger children showed that 179 7- to 9-year-old children distinguished properties of conflict from their appraisals of it. Moreover, as predicted by the cognitive-contextual framework, threat and self-blame appraisals mediated the link between conflict and internalizing problems but not externalizing problems. This study provides compelling evidence that appraisals of interparental conflict can be reliably measured at relatively young ages and suggests that perceptions of threat and self-blame function similarly in 7- to 9-year-olds as they do in older children.