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Everyday Marital Conflict and Child Aggression
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Children's immediate aggressive responding to exposure to marital conflict was examined. Participants were 108 families with 8- to 16-year-old children (53 boys, 55 girls), with diary records of children's reactions to marital conflict in the home completed by 103 mothers (n = 578 records) and 95 fathers (n = 377 records) during a 15-day period. Child responses to analog presentations of marital conflict tactics were also obtained. Exposure to destructive conflict tactics and negative parental emotionality increased the likelihood of aggressive behavior in children when they witnessed marital conflict, whereas constructive conflict tactics and positive parental emotionality decreased the probability of aggression. Conflict topics presumed to be threatening to the child (child- or marital-related) also heightened the likelihood of aggression. Aggressive responding to conflict in both home and laboratory predicted externalizing behavior problems. Fathers' and mothers' separate diary reports, and child responses to analog presentation of conflict, provided generally consistent findings. An exposure hypothesis for marital conflict as an influence on child aggression is discussed.
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Externalizing problems are mediated by insecurity about interparental conflict, and destructive interparental conflict is linked to child aggression.
“Notably, links with externalizing problems mediated by emotional insecurity about interparental conflict are found (Cummings & Davies, 2010), with destructive interparental conflict linked with child aggression (e.g., Cummings, Goeke-Morey, & Papp, 2004).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cummings, E. M., Goeke-Morey, M. C., & Papp, L. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cummings, E. Mark
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Published
- 2004-04
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 191-202
- ISSN
- 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2835
- OpenAlex
- W1967270652
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 9.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD36261, R01HD036261)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Keywords
- marital conflict, child aggression, externalizing problems, diary records, parent-child agreement
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Aggression, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Conflict, Psychological, Female, Humans, Male, Marriage, Time Factors
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