Positivity and Negativity in Interparental Conflict

Child emotional security and interparental 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 conflict in relation to hypotheses of other prominent theories. Study 1 examined whether the pattern of child responses to simulations of adult conflict tactics and topics was consistent with the emotional security hypothe...

Information content moderates positivity and negativity biases in memory.

Two experiments examined the impact of encoding conditions and information content in memory for positive, neutral, and negative pictures. We examined the hypotheses that the positivity effect in memory (i.e., a bias in favor of positive or against negative information in later life) would be reduced when (a) pictures were viewed under structured as opposed to unstructured conditions, and (b) c...

Children of Depressed Parents: Interparental Conflict, Self-blame, and Coping

Developmental family processes and interparental conflict: patterns of microlevel influences.

Although there are frequent calls for the study of effects of children on families and mutual influence processes within families, little empirical progress has been made. We address these questions at the level of microprocesses during marital conflict, including children's influence on marital conflict and parents' influence on each other. Participants were 111 cohabiting couples with a child...

Negative Appraisals of Interparental Conflict and Conflict Behaviors in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: the Influence of Conflict Goals