Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator.

Autor: Davies, Patrick T., Colton, Kassidy C., Schmitz, Carson, Gibb, Brandon E.
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Zdroj: Child Development; Jul2024, Vol. 95 Issue 4, p1333-1350, 18p
Abstrakt: This study tested children's emotion recognition as a mediator of associations between their exposure to hostile and cooperative interparental conflict and their internalizing and externalizing symptoms. From 2018 to 2022, 238 mothers, their partners, and preschool children (Mage = 4.38, 52% female; 68% White; 18% Black; 14% Multiracial or another race; and 16% Latinx) participated in three annual measurement occasions. Path analyses indicated that Wave 1 observations of hostile interparental conflict predicted residualized increases in children's emotion recognition accuracy (i.e., angry, sad, and happy) at Wave 2 (β =.27). Wave 2 emotion recognition, in turn, predicted residualized decreases in children's internalizing symptoms at Wave 3 (β = −.22). Mediational findings were partly attributable to children's accuracy in identifying angry and high‐intensity expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index