Literature on effects of marital conflict and divorce on child development has long wondered 1) whether divorce followed by parents’ marital conflict exerts distinguishable impacts on children and 2) whether marital conflict is more detrimental to involved children than divorce per se. We address these questions using the Korea Youth Panel Study-Elementary School Students that traced students f...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests a link between inter-parental conflict and children's psychological development. Most studies, however, have tended to focus on two broad indices of children's psychological adaptation (internalizing symptoms and externalizing problems) in considering the effects of inter-parental conflict on children's development. The present longitudinal study extends th...

1. Evolution, morality, and conflict between groups. 2. Parental investment and conflict within the family. 3. Co-operation, conflict, and emotional development. 4. Emotional development and parental investment. 5. Identification, projection, and images of self and others. 6. Projection and self-esteem. 7. The social externalization of internal conflict. 8. The individual, the family, and group...

BACKGROUND Both maternal and paternal depression during the perinatal period are associated with adverse effects on child outcomes. Attention has started to focus on the mechanisms mediating these relationships. Marital conflict may play a role in this context. METHODS In a large cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n = 14,541 pregnancies), we aimed to (i) invest...

Attachment theory focuses on the cognitive models that underlie our interactions with attachment figures. Global or generalized mental models are thought to develop on the basis of attachment models with parents and might form the initial basis of internal working models in novel relationships. However, as discrepant information presents itself in a new relationship, it is thought that specific...

Postpartum parental depression, even of mild intensity and short duration, has negative consequences on child development, including increased externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Studies revealed that the links between parental depression and child development are mediated by parenting difficulties. On the other hand, the mediating role of problematic family-level relationships, such as l...

Dr Smith contributed to the design, data analysis and interpretation, provided a careful review for intellectual content and gave approval of the final manuscript. Dr Munger was principal investigator of the ‘Cache County family-based Cohort Study on Aging’, the companion study that collected initial screening test scores and parental death data, and he provided a careful review of this manuscr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to identify retrospectively the alienating behaviors and the parental bonding that occurred in an Italian sample of adults whose had parents separated or divorced and their associations with self-esteem and psychological distress. METHODS Four hundred seventy adults in Chieti, Italy, completed an anonymous and confidential survey regarding their ch...