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Prospective Relations between Family Conflict and Adolescent Maladjustment: Security in the Family System as a Mediating Process

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Cummings, E. Mark, Koss, Kalsea J., Davies, Patrick T.·2015·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Abstract

Conflict in specific family systems (e.g., interparental, parent–child) has been implicated in the development of a host of adjustment problems in adolescence, but little is known about the impact of family conflict involving multiple family systems. Furthermore, questions remain about the effects of family conflict on symptoms of specific disorders and adjustment problems and the processes mediating these effects. The present study prospectively examines the impact of family conflict and emotional security about the family system on adolescent symptoms of specific disorders and adjustment problems, including the development of symptoms of anxiety, depression, conduct problems, and peer problems. Security in the family system was examined as a mediator of these relations. Participants included 295 mother-father-adolescent families (149 girls) participating across three annual time points (grades 7–9). Including auto-regressive controls for initial levels of emotional insecurity and multiple adjustment problems (T1), higher-order emotional insecurity about the family system (T2) mediated relations between T1 family conflict and T3 peer problems, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Further analyses supported specific patterns of emotional security/insecurity (i.e., security, disengagement, preoccupation) as mediators between family conflict and specific domains of adolescent adjustment. Family conflict was thus found to prospectively predict the development of symptoms of multiple specific adjustment problems, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, conduct problems, and peer problems, by elevating in in adolescent’s emotional insecurity about the family system. The clinical implications of these findings are considered.

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Crossref · 10.1007/s10802-014-9926-1

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    Family conflict cannot be confined to a single dyad and can involve multiple family members and systems.

    “However, conflict may be difficult to confine to one specific dyad and may involve multiple family members and systems (i.e., both parents and children).”
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    The mediation pathways can be interpreted as causal or process relations because there are no unmeasured confounders of family conflict, emotional insecurity, and adolescent symptoms.

    “The SEM mediation model included family income and child age as covariates. Autoregressive controls at T1 were included for emotional security and adolescent symptoms.”
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    Missing data are missing at random, so full-information maximum likelihood estimation yields unbiased parameter estimates.

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Authors
Cummings, E. M., Koss, K. J., & Davies, P. T.
Affiliations
  • University of Notre Dame (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • University of Rochester (US)
Corresponding author
Cummings, E. Mark
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Published
2014-08-19
Volume
43
Issue
3
Pages
503-515
ISSN
  • 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2835
OpenAlex
W2019753593
Cited by
176
References
83
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3
FWCI
5.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Notre Dame
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 57318, R01MH057318, T32MH015755)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
Keywords
family conflict, adolescent maladjustment, emotional safety, emotional insecurity, mediation, parental conflict, parent-child conflict, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, conduct problems, peer problems, disengagement, preoccupation
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Anxiety Disorders, Child Behavior Disorders, Conflict, Psychological, Depressive Disorder, Family, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Models, Psychological, Parent-Child Relations, Peer Group, Prospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Adjustment, Conduct Disorder, Family Conflict

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