Transactional Associations between Mother-Child Conflict and Child Externalising and Internalising Problems

Autor/inn/en	Georgiou, Stelios N.; Fanti, Kostas A.
Titel	Transactional Associations between Mother-Child Conflict and Child Externalising and Internalising Problems
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology, 34 (2014) 2, S.133-153 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-3410
DOI	10.1080/01443410.2013.785055
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Behavior Problems; Conflict; Correlation; Longitudinal Studies; Developmental Stages; Models; Daughters; Case Studies; Sons; Regression (Statistics); Arkansas; California; Massachusetts; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Virginia; Washington; Wisconsin; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Konflikt; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Analogiemodell; Daughter; Tochter; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Son; Sohn; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Kalifornien; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	The purpose of the present study was to investigate the existing transactional associations between mother-child conflict and the child's internalising and externalising problems. To this end, longitudinal data were used, covering ages 7-15. The sample consisted of 1,136 mothers and their children who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development longitudinal study. The current analysis employs the Autoregressive Latent Trajectory (ALT) model that enables the simultaneous investigation of (1) the developmental stability, (2) the developmental change, (3) the longitudinal inter-relations, (4) the time-specific associations and (5) the directionality of the relations among the variables under examination. It was found that mother-child conflict increased across time and externalising problems decreased from childhood to adolescence, while internalising problems showed intra-individual stability. Further, mother-daughter conflict increased at a higher rate than mother-son conflict. The cross-lagged regressions suggested that the association between conflict and externalising problems is bi-directional from age 7 to age 9. However, a child effect was found from age 9 to age 15, in that the child's externalising problems continually influenced mother-child conflict but not the other way around. In contrast, the association between internalising problems and conflict was limited to cross-sectional and overtime associations suggesting that the association between internalising problems and conflict is mostly due to the co-variation between them. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10