TY - JOUR
T1 - Family functioning and children's adjustment
T2 - Associations among parents' depressed mood, marital hostility, parent-child hostility, and children's adjustment
AU - Low, Sabina M.
AU - Stocker, Clare
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Relations between parents' depressed mood, marital conflict, parent-child hostility, and children's adjustment were examined in a community sample of 136 ten-year-olds and their parents. Videotaped observational and self-report data were used to examine these relations in path analyses. A proposed model was tested in which mothers' and fathers' depressed mood and marital hostility were associated with children's adjustment problems through disruptions in parent-child relationships. Results showed that both mothers' and fathers' marital hostility were linked to parent-child hostility, which in turn was linked to children's internalizing problems. Fathers' depressed mood was linked to children's internalizing problems indirectly through father-child hostility. Fathers' depressed mood was directly linked to children's externalizing problems and indirectly linked through father-child hostility. For mothers, marital hostility was directly linked to children's externalizing problems, and marital hostility in fathers was indirectly linked to children's externalizing problems through father-child hostility.
AB - Relations between parents' depressed mood, marital conflict, parent-child hostility, and children's adjustment were examined in a community sample of 136 ten-year-olds and their parents. Videotaped observational and self-report data were used to examine these relations in path analyses. A proposed model was tested in which mothers' and fathers' depressed mood and marital hostility were associated with children's adjustment problems through disruptions in parent-child relationships. Results showed that both mothers' and fathers' marital hostility were linked to parent-child hostility, which in turn was linked to children's internalizing problems. Fathers' depressed mood was linked to children's internalizing problems indirectly through father-child hostility. Fathers' depressed mood was directly linked to children's externalizing problems and indirectly linked through father-child hostility. For mothers, marital hostility was directly linked to children's externalizing problems, and marital hostility in fathers was indirectly linked to children's externalizing problems through father-child hostility.
KW - Children's adjustment
KW - Family functioning
KW - Marital hostility
KW - Parent depressed mood
KW - Parent-child hostility
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U2 - 10.1037/0893-3200.19.3.394
DO - 10.1037/0893-3200.19.3.394
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16221020
AN - SCOPUS:27644568003
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 19
SP - 394
EP - 403
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 3
ER -