Background: The effects of marital conflict on children's adjustment are well documented.
For the past decade research has increasingly focused on advancing a process‐level …

Family systems theory provides a rich conceptual framework and body of research devoted
to understanding the larger relational context in which parenting takes place. Although in …

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 …

Socialization is a process in which an individual's standards, skills, motives, attitudes, and
behaviors change to conform to those regarded as desirable and appropriate for his or her …

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis developed by Davies & Cummings (1994),
studies were conducted to test a conceptual refinement of children's adjustment to parental …

This meta-analysis examines the relationship between active coping and psychosocial
health among youth. Results from 40 studies of coping with interpersonal stress were …

Background: This study addresses the gaps in understanding the relationship between
constructive and destructive marital conflict and children's prosocial behavior from a process …

Contemporaneous and longitudinal associations among marital conflict, parentchild
relationship quality, and youth maladjustment were examined using data from the National …

The role of child gender in the relationship between interparental conflict and adolescent
psychological symptoms was examined in a sample of 924 children 10 to 15 years old and …

When caregivers conflict, systemic alliances shift and healthy parent‐child roles can be
corrupted. The present paper describes three forms of role corruption which can occur within …