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Marital conflict and child adjustment: An emotional security hypothesis.
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An emotional security hypothesis that builds on attachment theory is proposed to account for recent empirical findings on the impact of marital conflict on children and to provide directions for future research. Children's concerns about emotional security play a role in their regulation of emotional arousal and organization and in their motivation to respond in the face of marital conflict. Over time these response processes and internalized representations of parental relations that develop have implications for children's long-term adjustment. Emotional security is seen as a product of past experiences with marital conflict and as a primary influence on future responding. The impact and interaction of other experiential histories within the family that affect children's emotional security are also examined, with a focus on parent-child relations.
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“destructive interparental interactions are stressful for adolescents to observe (Davies et al. 2007; El-Sheikh 1994), provide children with poor models of effective coping (Chorpita and Barlow 1998), and threaten children’s safety and security within the family system (Davies and Cummings 1994).”
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“EST postulates that children’s adjustment is influenced by the extent to which they feel secure in the family system.”
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“However, research has focused on relations between conflicts in specific family systems, for example, interparental (e.g., Davies & Cummings, 1994) or parent-child hostility (e.g., Patterson, 1982), and children’s adjustment, rather than considering the implications of conflict in the family as a whole.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Davies, P. T., & Cummings, E. M.
- Affiliations
- West Virginia University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 387-411
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W1996010876
- Cited by
- 1,866
- References
- 225
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- FWCI
- 36.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Keywords
- marital conflict, child adjustment, emotional safety, attachment theory, emotion regulation, emotional arousal, parental relationships, parent-child relationship, family experiences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Psychology, Child, Child, Preschool, Conflict, Psychological, Emotions, Family, Humans, Infant, Marriage, Parent-Child Relations, Sex Factors, Social Adjustment
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