Dynamic Patterns of Marital Conflict: Relations to Trajectories of Adolescent Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	El-Sheikh, Mona; Shimizu, Mina; Erath, Stephen A.; Philbrook, Lauren E.; Hinnant, J. Benjamin
Titel	Dynamic Patterns of Marital Conflict: Relations to Trajectories of Adolescent Adjustment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 8, S.1720-1732 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hinnant, J. Benjamin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000746
Schlagwörter	Marital Satisfaction; Marital Instability; Conflict; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Behavior Problems; Emotional Adjustment; Adolescent Development; Longitudinal Studies; Prediction; Family Relationship; Stress Variables; Correlation; Aggression; Verbal Communication; Children; Depression (Psychology); Measures (Individuals); Anxiety; Antisocial Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Alabama; Childrens Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkonflikt; Konflikt; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Emotionale Anpassung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Vorhersage; Korrelation; Child; Kind; Kinder; Messdaten; Angst; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	The deleterious effects of marital conflict on youth outcomes are well-documented in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. To date, longitudinal studies have focused on repeated measures of youths' outcomes and the temporal dynamics of marital conflict have largely been ignored. Marital conflict changes over time as contextual and relationship characteristics change, and these patterns of change may provide unique predictive power in accounting for differences in youth outcomes. This study provides a novel exploration of an old idea by focusing on dynamic patterns of marital conflict in predicting trajectories of adolescents' adjustment. All variables were measured at ages 16, 17, and 18 with 252 adolescents (53% female) enrolled in the longitudinal Family Stress and Youth Development Study. Latent growth curve models with latent variable interactions were used to determine whether marital conflict at age 16 (intercept), change over time in marital conflict (slope), and the intercept--slope interaction predicted change over time in adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms and levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms at age 18. Youth exposed to high and increasing levels of marital conflict reported high and stable levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Adolescents exposed to low and decreasing levels of marital conflict had consistently fewer symptoms. Furthermore, exposure to initially low but increasing levels of marital conflict was associated with increases in problems across adolescence, which contrasted with findings for youth with initially high marital conflict exposure that decreased over time. Findings are discussed in relation to both conceptual and methodological advances. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01