Child emotional security and interparental conflict / Patrick T. Davies ... [et al.] ; with commentary by Jennifer M. Jenkins. - Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, c2002. - viii, 131 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, serial no. 270, vol. 67, no. 3, 2002 0037-976X ; . - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; v. 67, no. 3. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction and literature review -- Study 1: child responses to interparental conflict: comparing the relative roles of emotional security and social learning processes -- Study 2: relations between interparental conflict, child emotional security, and adjustment in the context of cognitive appraisals -- Study 3: parental conflict and child emotional security in the family system -- Study 4: family characteristics as potentiating and protective factors in the association between parental conflict and child functioning -- Conclusions, implications, and future directions -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Commentary. Mechanisms in the development of emotional organization / Jennifer M. Jenkins.


Child development.
Emotions in children.
Families--Psychological aspects.
Marital conflict--Psychological aspects.
Conflict management.