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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788716803321

Autore

Cummings E. Mark

Titolo

Marital conflict and children [[electronic resource] ] : an emotional security perspective / / E. Mark Cummings, Patrick T. Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Guilford Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-79050-1

9786612790508

1-60623-521-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

The Guilford series on social and emotional development

Altri autori (Persone)

DaviesPatrick

Disciplina

155.9/24

Soggetti

Child development

Marital conflict

Problem children

Families - Psychological aspects

Parent and child - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. New directions in the study of children and marital conflict -- pt. 2. Child effects of exposure to marital conflict -- pt. 3. Contextualizing marital conflict -- pt. 4. Future directions -- Appendices : coding systems and methodology.

Sommario/riassunto

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavio