Two studies tested hypotheses about the distinctive psychological consequences of
children's patterns of responding to interparental conflict. In Study 1, 174 preschool children …

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this research identified (1) individual
differences in children's strategies for preserving their emotional security in the interparental …

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this study reports on the development of a new
self‐report measure that assesses children's strategies for preserving emotional security in …

Building on empirical documentation of children's involvement in interparental conflicts as a
weak predictor of psychopathology, we tested the hypothesis that involvement in conflict …

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 …

Repeated exposure to interparental conflict increases children's vulnerability to a range of
psychological problems by undermining their emotional security in the relationship between …

Past research has emphasised the importance of children's appraisals of the threat posed by
parent conflict for understanding links between interparental conflict and child outcomes …

This multistudy article examined the relative strength of mediational pathways involving
hostile, disengaged, and uncooperative forms of interparental conflict, children's emotional …

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this study examined whether links between
marital relations and children's adjustment were mediated by children's emotional security …

An emotional security hypothesis that builds on attachment theory is proposed to account for
recent empirical findings on the impact of marital conflict on children and to provide …