Interparental Hostility and Children's Externalizing Symptoms: Attention to Anger as a Mediator

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Patrick T.; Coe, Jesse L.; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Ripple, Michael T.
Titel	Interparental Hostility and Children's Externalizing Symptoms: Attention to Anger as a Mediator
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 7, S.1290-1303 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000520
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Psychological Patterns; Prediction; Child Behavior; Behavior Problems; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Nonverbal Communication; Parent Child Relationship; Marital Instability; Teacher Attitudes; Security (Psychology); Visual Stimuli; Cognitive Processes; Psychopathology; Child Development; Preschool Children; Disadvantaged; Questionnaires; Parent Attitudes; Interviews; Parenting Styles; Interpersonal Relationship; Structural Equation Models; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Vorhersage; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienkonflikt; Lehrerverhalten; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Psychopathologie; Kindesentwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fragebogen; Elternverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This study examined children's attention biases to negative emotional stimuli as mediators of associations between interparental hostility and children's externalizing symptoms. Participants included 243 children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years) and their parents and teachers across three annual measurement occasions. Cross-lagged latent change analyses revealed that the association between interparental hostility and children's externalizing symptoms was mediated by children's attention to angry, but not sad or fearful, adult faces. Consistent with defensive exclusion models, the multimethod, multi-informant assessment of interparental hostility at Wave 1 specifically predicted decreases in children's attention to angry faces from Waves 1 to 2 in a visual search task. Declines in children's attention to anger, in turn, predicted increases in teacher reports of their externalizing problems across the three waves. Follow-up analyses further indicated that children's decreasing levels of emotional security in the interparental relationship were associated with the decreases in children's attention to angry stimuli. Results are discussed in relation to how they inform and advance information processing and social threat models in developmental psychopathology. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01