Goeke-Morey, M. C., Cummings, E. M., Harold, Gordon Thomas and Shelton, Katherine  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-5291
2003.
Categories and continua of destructive and constructive marital conflict tactics from the perspective of US and Welsh children.
Journal of Family Psychology
17
(3)
, pp. 327-338.
10.1037/0893-3200.17.3.327
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Abstract
Categories and continue of parents' marital conflict tactics based on multiple, conceptually grounded criteria were tested. Participants were 175 U.S. children, ages 8-16 years (88 boys, 87 girls) and 327 Welsh children, ages 11-12 years (159 boys, 168 girls). Children's responses (affective, cognitive, behavioral) to analog presentations of 10 everyday marital conflict tactics enacted by fathers or mothers showed substantial variation as a function of tactic used. Orderings of conflict tactics on the various response criteria varied as a function of moderators, particularly the gender of the parent expressing the conflict tactic. Conflict tactics were classified as either constructive or destructive according to criteria derived from the emotional security hypothesis. Except for calm discussion, classifications did not change regardless of cultural group, parent gender, or child age or gender. Recommendations for negotiating everyday marital conflict for the children's sake are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Psychology Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| ISSN: | 0893-3200 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 09:05 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/19958 |
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