Marital Aggression and Child Peer Competence: A Comparison of Three Conceptual Models

Overview

Journal Pers Relatsh

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Date 2013 Sep 7

PMID 24009468

Citations 12

Authors

Brent Finger

Rina D Eiden

Ellen P Edwards

Kenneth E Leonard

Lorig Kachadourian

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Abstract

This study examined longitudinal data linking marital aggression with child peer competence in kindergarten. The study compared three conceptual models for understanding the relation between marital aggression and child peer competence. Model 1 examines the direct effects of marital aggression, parental alcoholism, and parenting on child peer competence, model 2 posits that this relation is mediated by child social problem solving abilities (social information processing theory), while model 3 proposes that the relation is mediated by parental warmth/sensitivity (spillover theory). Structural Equation Modeling was most supportive of models 1 and 3 indicating that parenting behavior, but not social problem solving, partially mediates the relation between marital conflict and child peer competence.

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