Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2012 Jul;48(4):939-55. doi: 10.1037/a0025899. Epub 2011 Oct 17.
We examined the joint role of constructive and destructive interparental conflict in predicting children's emotional insecurity and psychological problems. In Study 1, 250 early adolescents (M = 12.6 years) and their primary caregivers completed assessments of family and child functioning. In Study 2, 201 mothers and their 2-year-old children participated in a multimethod, longitudinal design with 3 annual measurement occasions. Findings from structural equation modeling in both studies revealed that children's emotional insecurity in the interparental relationship mediated associations between destructive interparental conflict and children's psychological problems even after including constructive conflict and family and child covariates as predictors. Conversely, emotional insecurity was not a mediator of associations between constructive interparental conflict and children's psychological problems when destructive interparental conflict was specified as a risk factor in the analyses. The results are consistent with the evolutionary reformulation of emotional security theory and the resulting primacy ascribed to destructive interparental conflict in accounting for individual differences in children's emotional insecurity and its pathogenic implications (Davies & Sturge-Apple, 2007).
我们考察了建设性和破坏性的父母间冲突在预测儿童情绪不安全感和心理问题方面的共同作用。在研究 1 中，250 名早期青少年（M=12.6 岁）及其主要照顾者完成了家庭和儿童功能的评估。在研究 2 中，201 名母亲及其 2 岁的孩子参与了一项多方法、纵向设计，有 3 个年度测量时间点。两项研究中的结构方程模型发现，即使在将建设性冲突和家庭及儿童协变量作为预测因素纳入考虑后，儿童在父母关系中的情绪不安全感在破坏性父母间冲突与儿童心理问题之间的关联中起中介作用。相反，当分析中将破坏性父母间冲突指定为风险因素时，建设性父母间冲突与儿童心理问题之间的关联中，情绪不安全感并不是一个中介因素。这些结果与情绪安全感理论的进化重新表述以及破坏性父母间冲突在解释儿童情绪不安全感及其发病机制方面的首要地位相一致（Davies & Sturge-Apple，2007）。
