Marital Conflict and Children An Emotional Security Perspective

by Cummings, E. Mark; Davies, Patrick T.

• ISBN13: 9781606235195
• ISBN10: 1606235192
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-04
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.

Author Biography

E. Mark Cummings, PhD, is Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on relations between family processes and child development. Dr. Cummings has served as Associate Editor of Child Development and on the editorial boards of numerous other journals.

 

Patrick T. Davies, PhD, is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Clinical and Social Sciences at the University of Rochester. Like Dr. Cummings, Dr. Davies also studies relations between family processes and child development. He is Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology.

 

Table of Contents

New Directions in the Study of Children and Marital Conflict	p. 1
Marital Conflict and Risky Families	p. 5
The Emergence of Process-Oriented Approaches: Emotional Security Theory	p. 22
Child Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict	p. 53
Identifying Constructive and Destructive Marital Conflict	p. 57
Testing Process-Oriented Models of the Direct Effects of Exposure to Marital Conflict	p. 78
Contextualizing Marital Conflict	p. 97
The Role of Parenting in the Context of Marital Conflict: Indirect Pathways and Processes	p. 101
Contextual Vulnerability and Protective Models	p. 125
Development over Time in Contexts of Marital Conflict	p. 154
Future Directions	p. 171
Applications of Findings and Translation Research	p. 173
Beyond the Marital Dyad: From Bowlby to Political Violence	p. 200
Appendices	p. 227
Conflict in the Interparental System (CIS)-Observational Coding	p. 229
Security in the Interparental Subsystem (SIS) Scale-Child Report	p. 234
Security in the Marital Subsystem-Parent Report (SIMS-PR) Scale	p. 239
Advanced Measurement and Research Design Issues for a Process-Oriented Approach	p. 243
References	p. 267
Index	p. 311
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