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Parental Support Mediates the Link Between Marital Conflict and Child Internalizing Symptoms
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by Kayla Duncan and Farrah Hughes - Francis Marion University
We tested whether the relation between marital conflict
and child functioning may be mediated by two important factors:
(a) decreases in parental support and (b) lack of authoritative
parenting. The present sample consisted of 111 married couples
and their adolescent children. We tested a multiple mediator model
by using bootstrapping procedures in which support and
authoritativeness were evaluated simultaneously as potential
mediators. We found that the relation between marital conflict and
child internalizing symptoms appears to be mediated by parental
support, but not by authoritative parenting. Our findings revealed
that parental support was a mediator only for fathers. We outline
some empirical and clinical implications of these findings and offer
suggestions for future research.
Summer 2011 | Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research (Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 80), published by Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology (Chattanooga, TN). Copyright, 2011, Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology. All rights reserved.