Impact of Hostility and Withdrawal in Interparental Conflict on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Children's Adjustment Difficulties

Melissa L. Sturge-Apple ^[1] ; Patrick T. Davies ^[1] ; E. Mark Cummings ^[2]
1. [1] University of Rochester
  
  University of Rochester
  
  City of Rochester, Estados Unidos
2. [2] University of Notre Dame
  
  University of Notre Dame
  
  Township of Portage, Estados Unidos
Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 77, Nº. 6, 2006, págs. 1623-1641
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This multimethod, prospective study examined the nature of pathways between interparental hostility and withdrawal, parental emotional unavailability, and subsequent changes in children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and school adjustment difficulties over a 3-year period in a sample of 210 mothers, fathers, and 6-year-old children. The results of autoregressive structural equation models indicated that interparental withdrawal had a detrimental impact on all areas of children's adjustment, whereas interparental hostility had an indirect effect on subsequent changes in child adjustment. An intermediary role of parental emotional unavailability in links between interparental withdrawal and hostility and child outcomes was indicated, with specific, differential effects observed for fathers and mothers.