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Children’s Responses to Interparental Conflict: A Meta-Analysis of Their Associations With Child Adjustment
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A meta-analysis examined the relations between children’s adjustment and children’s cognitive, affective, behavioral, and physiological responses to interparental conflict. Studies included children between 5 and 19 years of age. Moderate effect sizes were found for the associations between cognitions and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and self-esteem problems, negative affect and behavioral responses and internalizing behavior problems, and behavioral responses and self-esteem problems. Small to moderate effect sizes were found for the associations between cognitions and relational problems, negative affect and behavioral responses and externalizing behavior problems, and physiological reactions and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Effect sizes were, with 1 exception, larger for internalizing than for externalizing behavior problems. Age significantly moderated the majority of effect sizes.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rhoades, K. A.
- Affiliations
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rhoades, Kimberly A
- ORCID
- Rhoades, Kimberly A
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-11-01
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1942-1956
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- PMC
- PMC2597571
- OpenAlex
- W2155608666
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 83
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- FWCI
- 0.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH068427)
- 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
- parental conflict, child adjustment, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, self-esteem, negative affect, behavioral responses, physiological responses, cognitive responses, age differences, parent-child relationship
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Affect, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Conflict, Psychological, Humans, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Self Concept
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