MARITAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

如何处理婚姻冲突对儿童、婚姻和家庭的幸福至关重要。一方面，婚姻冲突与子女的适应问题有关。另一方面，这是不可避免的，许多形式的冲突表达是正常的，可能是良性的。从孩子的角度来看，什么是建设性的和破坏性的婚姻冲突方式？哪些调解和调节过程以及背景因素是关键？回答这些问题具有深远的心理健康和社会影响。本研究采用队列序贯设计，研究了在小学至青春期(N=249)之间，婚姻冲突对儿童的正面和负面影响的中介和调节的过程和因素。婚姻冲突、儿童压力和应对以及儿童和家庭功能的多方法/维度评估被用于研究发展路径。在三个时间点评估儿童结果，以增加因果建模的可重复性。要处理的问题包括：(A)从儿童的角度确定最具建设性和破坏性的母亲和父亲的婚姻冲突方式；(B)确定调解影响的过程和机制，包括与儿童压力和应对婚姻冲突有关的影响以及改变的育儿做法；(C)在一个研究不足的发展阶段中，与婚姻冲突有关的发展路径的变化；(D)具体说明父母和子女的性别以及父母适应的调节作用。与基于有限的测量策略和概念模型的早期横断面研究相比，这项研究将为家庭研究人员和治疗师，以及最终为我们社会的父母提供更好的定义和适用的信息。

How marital conflict is handled is crucial to the well-being of children, marriages, and families. On the one hand, marital conflict is linked with children's adjustment problems. On the other, it is inevitable and many forms of conflict expression are normal and likely benign. What are the constructive and destructive marital conflict styles from the children's perspectives? Which mediating and moderating processes and contextual factors are critical? Answering these questions has far-reaching mental health and societal implications. The proposed study investigates the processes and factors that mediate and moderate the positive and negative effects of marital conflict on children between elementary-school age and adolescence (N=249) within a cohort sequential design. Multi-method/dimension assessment of marital conflict, children's stress and coping, and child and family functioning are utilized in the study of developmental pathways. Child outcomes are assessed at three time points to increase the interpetability of causal modeling. Among the questions to be addressed are: (a) identifying mother's and father's marital conflict styles that are most constructive, and destructive, from the children's perspective, (b) identifying the processes and mechanisms that mediate effects, including effects associated with children's stress and coping with marital conflict and changed parenting practices, (c) changes in developmental pathways associated with marital conflict across an understudied period of development, and (d) specifying the moderating effects of parents' and children's gender, and parental adjustment. The research will provide much better defined and applicable take-home messages for family researchers and therapists, and ultimately, our society's parents, than has been possible with earlier cross-sectional studies based upon limited measurement strategies and conceptual models.