The Role of Maternal Communication Patterns about Interparental Disputes in Associations between Interparental Conflict and Child Psychological Maladjustment

Autor/inn/en	Gomulak-Cavicchio, Beata M.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark
Titel	The Role of Maternal Communication Patterns about Interparental Disputes in Associations between Interparental Conflict and Child Psychological Maladjustment
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34 (2006) 6, S.757-771 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-006-9050-y
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Communication (Thought Transfer); Conflict; Child Psychology; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Psychological Patterns; Child Rearing; Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal Relationship; Parents; Adjustment (to Environment); Family Environment; Emotional Adjustment; Symptoms (Individual Disorders) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Konflikt; Kinderpsychologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Kindererziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Eltern; Familienmilieu; Emotionale Anpassung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	The present study examined the role of mothers' communication with children about interparental disputes in associations between interparental conflict and child psychological maladjustment in a sample of 227 children and their parents followed over a one-year span. Most of the time (i.e., 79.8%) mothers reported that they would communicate with their children following interparental disputes, with the vast majority of those communications containing relatively constructive depictions of interparental conflict. Post-conflict communications were not associated with children's adjustment above and beyond the impact of interparental conflict. However, maternal communications underscoring family cohesion and warmth, emphasizing remorse for engaging in the interparental disagreement, and denying the occurrence of the dispute each moderated associations between interparental conflict and child externalizing symptoms in distinct, complex ways. The findings in general suggest that not all positive communications have the beneficial impact on children that parents may have intended. (Author).
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