McDonald Renee, Grych John H
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0442, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2006 Mar;20(1):88-99. doi: 10.1037/0893-3200.20.1.88.
The present study investigated 2 questions pertinent to understanding developmental aspects of children's conflict appraisals: (a) Do 7- to 9-year-old children make reliable distinctions between their perceptions of conflict and their appraisals of threat and self-blame? (b) Do threat and blame appraisals mediate the association between exposure to interparental conflict and adjustment problems in this age group? Factor analysis of a new version of the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC-Y) designed for younger children showed that 179 7- to 9-year-old children distinguished properties of conflict from their appraisals of it. Moreover, as predicted by the cognitive-contextual framework, threat and self-blame appraisals mediated the link between conflict and internalizing problems but not externalizing problems. This study provides compelling evidence that appraisals of interparental conflict can be reliably measured at relatively young ages and suggests that perceptions of threat and self-blame function similarly in 7- to 9-year-olds as they do in older children.
（a）7至9岁的儿童能否在对冲突的认知与对威胁和自责的评估之间做出可靠区分？（b）在这个年龄组中，威胁和责备评估是否介导了父母间冲突暴露与适应问题之间的关联？对为年幼儿童设计的新版《儿童对父母间冲突的认知量表》（CPIC-Y）进行的因素分析表明，179名7至9岁的儿童能够将冲突的属性与其对冲突的评估区分开来。此外，正如认知情境框架所预测的那样，威胁和自责评估介导了冲突与内化问题之间的联系，但未介导与外化问题之间的联系。这项研究提供了令人信服的证据，表明在相对年幼的年龄就可以可靠地测量对父母间冲突的评估，并表明7至9岁儿童对威胁和自责的认知与年龄较大儿童的认知功能相似。
