Interparental conflict and children's social problems: Insecurity and friendship affiliation as cascading mediators.

ABSTRACT: Although social difficulties have been identified as sequelae of children's experiences with interparental conflict and insecurity, little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying their vulnerability to social problems. Guided by emotional security theory, this study tested the hypothesis that children's emotional insecurity mediates associations between interparental conflict and their social difficulties by undermining their affiliative goals in best friendships. Participants included 235 families with the first of 5 measurement occasions over a 10-year period occurring when children were in kindergarten (mean age = 6 years). Findings from the lagged latent difference score analyses indicated that intensification of multi-method assessment of interparental conflict during the ea

SUBMITTER: Davies PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5750067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature