Associations Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Conflict Appraisals, Stress Physiology, and Mental Health

Lucas-Thompson, Rachel G.; Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Dumitrache, Adina

doi:10.1080/15374416.2015.1046179

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Associations Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Conflict Appraisals, Stress Physiology, and Mental Health

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Lucas-Thompson, Rachel G., Lunkenheimer, Erika S., Dumitrache, Adina·2017·Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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The goal of the current study was to examine conflict appraisals and diurnal cortisol production as mediators of the robust association between marital conflict and adolescent adjustment problems. Parents reported their marital conflict and were observed engaging in a marital conflict discussion; they also reported adolescent internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Adolescents (n = 105, 52% female, 10-17 years of age) appraised their parents' marital conflict and reported their internalizing and externalizing behaviors. After the laboratory visit, adolescents provided four saliva samples on each of 2 consecutive days to assess diurnal cortisol production. More-negative marital conflict predicted more self-blame for parental conflict, which in turn predicted less robust decreases in cortisol across the day. Further, this flattened cortisol production pattern mediated the relationship between greater self-blame for parental conflict and adolescents' elevated internalizing behaviors. Feeling responsible for parental conflict appears to be particularly damaging in terms of physiological regulation and adjustment, and may therefore be a particularly useful intervention target.

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Appraising conflict as threatening to self or family and/or feeling self-blame is particularly risky for children's adjustment and regulation.
“Appraising conflict as threatening to the self or family, and/or feeling self-blame for interparental conflict is particularly risky for children in terms of adjustment and regulation”
From Mindfulness Interventions to Reduce Impact of Interparental Conflict on Adolescents. (2020) · cites this paper as Lucas-Thompson et al. 2015
The Discussion links threat appraisals to internalizing problems and self-blame to both internalizing and externalizing problems. It also reports that self-blame predicted flattened cortisol slopes, but threat appraisals were not related to the diurnal cortisol measure studied. Thus the adjustment claim is supported, while the regulation claim is supported for self-blame, not threat. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Frequent, intense, poorly resolved interparental conflict raises adolescents' risk for internalizing and externalizing problems and for stress physiological dysregulation.
“Exposure to frequent, intense, and poorly resolved interparental conflict puts adolescents at risk for problems in many domains, including internalizing and externalizing problems, and stress physiological dysfunction.”
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Authors: Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Lunkenheimer, E. S., & Dumitrache, A.
Affiliations: Colorado State University (US)
ORCID: Lunkenheimer, Erika S.
Dumitrache, Adina
Venue: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2015-07-02
Volume: 46
Issue: 3
Pages: 379-393
ISSN: 1537-4416 (ISSN-L)
1537-4424
DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2015.1046179
PMC: PMC4698249
OpenAlex: W2124799280
Cited by: 50
References: 79
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4
FWCI: 4.55
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K01HD068170)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords: marital conflict, self-blame, diurnal cortisol, stress physiology, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, adolescent adjustment, mediation, parental conflict
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Conflict, Psychological, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Internal-External Control, Male, Marriage, Mental Health, Middle Aged, Minnesota, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Saliva, Stress, Physiological, Stress, Psychological, Family Conflict

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