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Cascading effects of interparental conflict in adolescence: Linking threat appraisals, self-efficacy, and adjustment.
- Source :
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Development & Psychopathology . Feb2015, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p239-252. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This study examined the longitudinal implications of adolescents' exposure to interparental conflict for their developmental success. In the proposed developmental cascade model, adolescents' perceptions of parental conflict as threatening is a risk factor for diminished self-efficacy, which would account for diminished adjustment. This study presents longitudinal data for 768 sixth-grade students and their families over four time points, ending in eighth grade. Analyses were conducted in three steps. First, replication of longitudinal support for threat as a mediator of the link between interparental conflict and emotional distress was found; however, findings did not support threat as a mediator of behavior problems or subjective well-being. Second, threat was found to mediate the longitudinal association between interparental conflict and self-efficacy. Third, a developmental cascade model supported a risk process in which interparental conflict was related to adolescents' threat appraisals, which undermined self-efficacy beliefs, and was then linked with emotional distress, behavior problems, and subjective well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09545794
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Development & Psychopathology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 100761111
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579414000704