Children's attentional biases to emotions as sources of variability in their vulnerability to interparental conflict.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the role children's processing of emotions plays in altering children's vulnerability to interparental conflict. To address this gap, the present study examined whether the mediational cascade involving children's exposure to interparental conflict, their insecure responses to interparental conflict, and their psychological problems varied as a function of children's preexisting biases to attend to angry, fearful, sad, and happy expressions. Participants included 243 children (M age = 4.60 years) and their parents assessed at 3 annual measurement occasions. Moderated-mediation analyses within a cross-lagged autoregressive design indicated that the indirect paths among interparental conflict, emotional insecurity, and psychological problems were significant for

SUBMITTER: Davies PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8262375 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature