Are There Individual and Sibling Differences in Appraisals of Interparental Conflict?
Are There Individual and Sibling Differences in Appraisals of Interparental Conflict?
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DOI：
10.1037/fam0000326
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
George, Melissa W.
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作者：
Lucas-Thompson, Rachel G.;George, Melissa W.
尽管几十年来的经验性文献记录了频繁、激烈、暴力和未解决的父母间冲突对儿童适应的有害影响，但婚姻冲突对儿童情绪和行为问题发展的影响程度存在相当大的差异。过去的研究记录了父母间冲突本身的性质(如强度、频率)、儿童对冲突的评估和儿童结果之间的联系，但对个人和家庭特征在预测儿童冲突评估中的作用知之甚少。兄弟姐妹研究可能特别有助于理解这些个体差异，但在婚姻冲突研究方面明显缺乏。目前的研究在一项对153名青少年的研究中检查了青少年对冲突的评估的个人和家庭特征预测因素，以及在50对兄弟姐妹的子样本中冲突评估的兄弟姐妹相似性。控制父母对父母间冲突的频率、强度和解决方式、亲子关系质量和应激性生活事件的报告可以预测冲突评估。此外，兄弟姐妹对冲突财产的评估是不独立的，但自责和威胁评估似乎在兄弟姐妹中是独立的。在兄弟姐妹的冲突评估中，更大的差异与更负面的婚姻冲突和亲子关系质量的差异有关，并且在混血兄弟姐妹二人组中发现。强调了对影响儿童对冲突的评价的因素的未来研究的影响，特别是利用兄弟姐妹研究来审查共同的环境和个人对评价的影响。
Despite decades of empirical literature documenting the harmful effects of frequent, intense, violent, and unresolved interparental conflict on children's adjustment, there is considerable variability in the extent to which marital conflict contributes to the development of children's emotional and behavioral problems. Past research has documented links between properties of interparental conflict itself (e.g., intensity, frequency), children's appraisals of conflict, and children's outcomes, yet less is known about the role of individual and family characteristics in predicting children's conflict appraisals. Sibling studies may be especially helpful in understanding these individual differences yet are notably lacking in marital conflict research. The current study examines individual-and family-characteristic predictors of adolescents' appraisals of conflict in a study of 153 adolescents as well as sibling similarities in conflict appraisals in a subsample of 50 pairs of siblings. Controlling for parent reports of the frequency, intensity, and resolution of interparental conflict, parent-child relationship quality and stressful life events predicted conflict appraisals. In addition, there was nonindependence of sibling appraisals of conflict properties, but self-blame and threat appraisals appeared independent across siblings. Greater discrepancies in siblings' conflict appraisals were related to more negative marital conflict and discrepancies in parent-child relationship quality, and were found in mixed-sex sibling dyads. Implications for future studies on factors that impact children's appraisals of conflict and in particular making use of sibling studies to examine shared environmental and individual influences on appraisals is highlighted.