The Implications of Early Marital Conflict for Children's Development.

ABSTRACT: Although negative associations between the frequency and intensity of marital conflict and children's adjustment are well documented, less is known about how parents' conflict styles are related to children's developmental outcomes. The present study examines whether exposure to different types of parents' conflict styles, during a child's first year of life, is related to children's behavioral outcomes in the first grade. Parents' conflict resolution styles (CRSs) and child outcomes were examined in a sample of 150 working-class, first-time parents and their children. It was hypothesized that infants' exposure to more conflictual conflict resolution styles would predict poorer child outcomes over time. Results revealed that parents' unique conflict styles mattered in unique ways for child

SUBMITTER: Craft AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8009335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature