Interparental conflict and child adjustment: Testing the mediational role of appraisals in the cognitive-contextual framework
Interparental conflict and child adjustment: Testing the mediational role of appraisals in the cognitive-contextual framework
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.00255
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发表时间：
2000-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
McDonald, R
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作者：
Grych, JH;Fincham, FD;McDonald, R
儿童对父母间冲突的评价一直与适应问题有关，但引起这种关联的过程还不清楚。本文提出，评估的威胁和自责调解儿童的报告之间的关联的父母间冲突和内化的问题，并测试这一中介假设的两个样本的儿童，一个来自社区（317个10至14岁的孩子）和其他受虐妇女的庇护所（145个10至12岁的孩子）。结果表明，感知到的威胁调解的关联父母之间的冲突和内化问题的男孩和女孩在这两个样本，和自责调解这种关联的男孩在这两个样本和女孩的住房样本。感知的威胁和自责不调解与外化问题的联系，也没有证据表明评估冲突和儿童调整之间的关联的调节作用。了解的机制，暴露于父母间的冲突可能会导致儿童适应不良的影响进行了讨论。
Children's appraisals of interparental conflict consistently have been associated with adjustment problems, but the processes that give rise to this association are not well understood. This paper proposes that appraisals of threat and self-blame mediate the association between children's reports of interparental conflict and internalizing problems, and tests this mediational hypothesis in two samples of children, one drawn from the community (317 ten- to fourteen-year-olds) and the other from battered women's shelters (145 ten- to twelve-year-olds). Results indicate that perceived threat mediates the association between interparental conflict and internalizing problems for boys and girls in both samples, and self-blame mediates this association for boys in both samples and girls in the shelter sample. Perceived threat and self-blame do not mediate links with externalizing problems, and there is no evidence of a moderating effect of appraisals on the association between conflict and child adjustment. Implications for understanding the mechanism by which exposure to interparental conflict could lead to child maladjustment are discussed.