The concepts of allostatic load and allostatic processes can help psychologists understand
how health trajectories are influenced by stressful childhood experiences in the family. This …

Exposure to marital psychological and physical abuse has been established as a risk factor
for children's socio-emotional, behavioral, and cognitive problems. Understanding the …

The goal of the current study was to examine conflict appraisals and diurnal cortisol
production as mediators of the robust association between marital conflict and adolescent …

Marital conflict is a distressing context in which children must regulate their emotion and
behavior; however, the associations between the multidimensionality of conflict and …

The goal of this review is to summarize empirical research conducted over the past several
decades examining the impact of parental conflict and emotional abuse on children and …

Early intervention has become a widely recognised practice because preschool years offer
the best timing for preventing early onset conduct problems. Moreover, some factors have …

Although negative interparental conflict predicts elevated externalizing problems for
children, there are individual differences in this association. Theoretically, children's abilities …

Although considerable research has examined the relation of couple functioning to child
emotional and behavioral problems, comparatively few studies have examined the impact of …

A growing body of developmental research on bullying (ie, ridicule, intimidation, and
exclusion) focuses predominately on either the perpetrators or victims of bullying. Although …

Objective The goal of this study was to provide the first empirical investigation of
associations among interparental conflict, adolescents' attention to emotion in interpersonal …