Mueller Victoria, Jouriles Ernest N, McDonald Renee, Rosenfield David
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, P.O. Box 750442, Dallas, TX, 75275-0442, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2015 Aug;43(6):1041-54. doi: 10.1007/s10802-014-9953-y.
This study examines concurrent and prospective relations between children's threat and self-blame appraisals of interparental conflict, their involvement in interparental conflict, and their internalizing and externalizing problems. 539 children aged 7-10 years old and their mothers participated in the study. They completed 3 assessments spaced 6 months apart. At each assessment, children reported on their threat and self-blame appraisals of interparental conflict, their conflict involvement, and their internalizing and externalizing problems. Mothers also reported on children's internalizing and externalizing problems. In concurrent analyses, threat and self-blame appraisals and conflict involvement were each positively and independently associated with children's adjustment problems. Threat related more strongly to internalizing problems than to externalizing problems; self-blame related more strongly to externalizing problems than to internalizing problems. Threat appraisals were associated with children's adjustment problems prospectively, but self-blame appraisals and conflict involvement were not. Although threat and self-blame appraisals and conflict involvement may each contribute to children's concurrent adjustment problems, threat appraisals appear most salient to their future adjustment problems.
本研究考察了儿童对父母间冲突的威胁和自责评估、他们对父母间冲突的卷入程度，以及他们的内化和外化问题之间的同时期关系和前瞻性关系。539名7至10岁的儿童及其母亲参与了这项研究。他们完成了间隔6个月的三次评估。每次评估时，儿童报告他们对父母间冲突的威胁和自责评估、他们对冲突的卷入程度，以及他们的内化和外化问题。母亲们也报告了儿童的内化和外化问题。在同时期分析中，威胁和自责评估以及冲突卷入程度均与儿童的适应问题呈正相关且相互独立。威胁与内化问题的关联比与外化问题的关联更强；自责与外化问题的关联比与内化问题的关联更强。威胁评估与儿童的适应问题存在前瞻性关联，但自责评估和冲突卷入程度则不然。虽然威胁和自责评估以及冲突卷入程度可能都对儿童的同时期适应问题有影响，但威胁评估似乎对他们未来的适应问题最为突出。
