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Fincham, Frank D. Grych, John Howard 2011-05-07T12:43:13Z 2011-05-07T12:43:13Z 10000-01-01 1991 Children exposed to higher levels of marital conflict tend to exhibit greater adjustment problems than children from more harmonious families. However, there has been little work exploring the processes by which exposure to conflict may give rise to adjustment problems. Grych and Fincham (1990) recently proposed a framework outlining factors that influence the impact of interparental conflict on children. The framework proposes that the stressfulness of conflict is mediated by children's appraisal of the conflict, a process which is shaped by characteristics of the conflict and contextual variables. Guided by this framework, two studies were conducted that (a) examined relations between children's perceptions of marital conflict and their level of adjustment and (b) investigated how particular dimensions of conflict affect children's immediate responses to conflict, and the relations among contextual factors, children's perceptions of conflict, and their affective and coping responses. Results from Study 1 indicated that children's perceptions of the frequency, intensity, and resolution of marital conflict were consistently associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems assessed through parent, teacher/peer, and child reports. Study 2 showed that both the intensity and content of conflict were related to children's affective, cognitive, and coping responses, and that children's perceptions of conflict were linked to their affect and choice of coping strategies. However, the effects of context were inconsistent. These findings suggest that it is important to consider both characteristics of conflict and children's appraisals in understanding how marital conflict may affect children. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:43:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9210818.pdf: 4409884 bytes, checksum: 6af29a3f0281553ecdd85e336d7bd47a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:44:49Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:19:47-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9210818 (UMI)AAI9210818 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20577 eng Copyright 1991 Grych, John Howard Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Marital conflict and children's adjustment: Initial investigations of the cognitive-contextual framework text Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.