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Parent-child conflict and early childhood adjustment in two-parent low-income families: Parallel developmental processes

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Weaver, Chelsea M., Shaw, Daniel S., Crossan, Jennifer L., Dishion, Thomas J., Wilson, Melvin N.·2015·Child Psychiatry & Human Development
DOI 10.1007/s10578-014-0455-5PMC PMC4523123
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Parent-child conflict is central to most intervention models focused on reducing child problem behavior, yet few longitudinal studies have examined these processes during early childhood. The current study investigates (1) growth in mother-child and father figure (FF)-child conflict, (2) associations between trajectories of mother-child and FF-child conflict and children's adjustment; and (3) intervention effects in attenuating conflict. Participants are 195 ethnically diverse mother-FF-child triads drawn from a larger parenting intervention study for families with children at risk for developing conduct problems. Mother-child conflict decreased from ages 2 to 4, but decreases were unrelated to changes in children's adjustment problems. In contrast, the slope of FF-child conflict was positively related to the slope of child externalizing behaviors. Random assignment to a family-centered parenting intervention predicted rate of decline in mother-child conflict. Findings are discussed with respect to developmental patterns of parent-child conflict in early childhood and implications for prevention.

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  • Young children may be especially vulnerable to fatal harsh physical punishment due to their small size and the likely occurrence of parent-child conflict, which may largely be driven by increases in developmentally appropriate externalizing child behaviors.

    “Young children may be especially vulnerable due to their small size and the likely occurrence of parent-child conflict, which may largely be driven by increases in developmentally appropriate externalizing child behaviors (e.g., tantrums; American Academy of Pediatrics, 2021;Weaver, Shaw, Crossan, Dishion, & Wilson, 2015).”

    From Child abuse-related homicides precipitated by caregiver use of harsh physical punishment (2023) · cites this paper as Weaver, Shaw, Crossan, Dishion, & Wilson, 2015

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  • Parents may seek to resolve parent-child conflict by employing harsh parenting practices.

    “Consequently, parents may seek to resolve parent-child conflict by employing harsh parenting practices (Weaver et al., 2015).”

    From Child abuse-related homicides precipitated by caregiver use of harsh physical punishment (2023) · cites this paper as Weaver et al., 2015

    The Introduction says parent–child conflict overlaps with harsh parenting and can involve negative parental affect, intrusive behavior, and aggression. It also describes coercive cycles in which children may elicit acrimonious interactions from parents. The paper does not say that parents employ harsh practices in order to resolve conflict; that proposed purpose is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.79)

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Authors
Weaver, C. M., Shaw, D. S., Crossan, J. L., Dishion, T. J., & Wilson, M. N.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Arizona State University (US)
  • University of Virginia (US)
Corresponding author
Weaver, Chelsea M.
ORCID
Venue
Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-03-08
Volume
46
Issue
1
Pages
94-107
ISSN
  • 0009-398X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-3327
DOI
10.1007/s10578-014-0455-5
PMC
PMC4523123
OpenAlex
W2041608826
Cited by
56
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
FWCI
2.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA036832, K05DA025630, R01DA022773, R01DA023245, R01DA016110, R01 DA16110-02)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords
parent-child conflict, mother-child conflict, early childhood, child adjustment, externalizing problems, low-income households, conflict trajectories, parenting support
MeSH terms
Problem Behavior, Adult, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Family Therapy, Father-Child Relations, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Poverty, Social Adjustment, Treatment Outcome, Family Conflict

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