Childhood family adversity and adult cortisol response: The role of observed marital conflict behavior.

ABSTRACT: Childhood family adversity predicts adult interpersonal behavior and physiological responses to interpersonal stress. Additionally, negative marital behaviors (e.g., hostility and distress maintaining attributions) predict maladaptive stress responses and mental health problems, whereas positive marital behaviors (e.g., acceptance and relationship enhancing attributions) predict adaptive physiological and psychological outcomes. The present study examined potential marital behavior mediators and moderators of the link between childhood adversity and cortisol responses to conflict. In a sample of 218 different-sex newlywed couples, we examined (a) actors' marital conflict behaviors as candidate mediators of the link between childhood adversity and cortisol responses to marital conflict disc

SUBMITTER: Winer JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8252991 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature