Children Perception of Inter-Parental Conflicts and Their Cognitive Emotion Regulation (original) (raw)
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American journal of life sciences, 2023
Adolescence is the period of marked changes no congenial family environment due to parental conflicts brings drastic results in the form of emotional dysregulation and low distress tolerance. Parent-child relationships are thought to change during adolescence to become more equal, dependent, and of mutual interest. This study aimed to investigate the effect of interparental conflicts on the distress tolerance and emotion regulation ability of adolescents. The correlational research design was used. The sample of N=348 adolescents (both male and female) was collected from the government school of Islamabad through purposive sampling methods. Study started in August 2021 and completed in October 2022. The background information was collected with the help of demographic form. Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict (CPIC) scale was used to assess the children's perception of parent's conflict, Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) assess the distress tolerance skills of adolescents, and Difficulty of Emotional Regulation Scale (DERS) was used to assess emotional dysregulations. The findings of this study showed interparental conflict significantly had a negative correlation with emotional dysregulation in adolescents (-.181**<0.05). In addition, interparental conflict predicted emotional dysregulation in adolescents which indicated 3% variance in outcome (R2=0.03). Moreover, the gender difference in these variables showed female has a higher score on emotional dysregulations than male. The study concluded that interparental conflict affects the ability of the adolescent to regulate emotions and tolerate distress. This study is also helpful to understand how these psychological phenomena effects adolescent in Pakistan.
Children’s cognitive and emotional processes in adult versus child-related inter-parental conflicts
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Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale: Urdu Translation and Validation
2020, VOL. 35, NO. 2
Based on the Cognitive Contextual framework, the Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict (CPIC; Grych, Seid, & Fincham, 1992) scale was developed to measure perception of children about interparental conflict. This paper presents a valid and reliable Urdu translation of CPIC scale, using a sample of 521 adolescents, to make available an instrument that can be used on Pakistani adolescents. The guidelines of Brislin (1970) were used for the translation of CPIC, followed by cross-language validation, which showed significant correlations (p< .01) between original and Urdu-version of CPIC. Confirmatory Factor Analysis and follow-up model fit indices showed a good fit on its original four factor structure (GFI = .90; IFI = .91; CFI = .91; RMSEA = .03), after deletion of certain items. Cronbach’s coefficient indicated sound internal consistency of all subscales. It is concluded that the Urdu-translated version of CPIC is a reliable and valid measure to assess different aspects...
Employing descriptive exploratory research design, ten parents; eight mothers and two father, having children between 5-8 years of age were recruited from a community of high income strata in Karachi, which is one of the mega cities of Pakistan that is among the low and middle income countries1. Using semi structured interview guide, data was collected through in-depth interviews of the participants. Findings revealed that parental conflicts negatively impact on children’s social and emotional development which they demonstrate through being aggressive, losing interest in their education, losing confidence, geing detached from their parents and siblings and at times being abusive. Such emotions, if not treated well, may result them indulging in anti- social behaviors and personality disorders. Hence, it is concluded that positive parental relations are important for children’s emotional and overall development. These findings can assist practitioners to promote healthy parental relationships, early identification of conflicts and to intervene as needed.
Emotional expression in the family as a context for children's appraisals of interparental conflict.
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Journal of Family Psychology, 2008
Emotional, cognitive, and family systems processes have been identified as mediators of the association between interparental conflict and children's adjustment. However, little is known about how they function in relation to one another because they have not all been assessed in the same study. This investigation examined the relations among children's exposure to parental conflict, their appraisals of threat and blame, their emotional reaction, and triangulation into parental disagreements. One hundred fifty ethnically diverse 8-to 12-year-old children and both of their parents participated in the study. Comparisons of 3 models proposing different relations among these processes indicated that they function as parallel and independent mediators of children's adjustment. Specifically, children's self-blaming attributions and emotional distress were uniquely associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems, whereas perceived threat uniquely predicted internalizing problems and triangulation uniquely predicted externalizing problems.
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2015
The present study tested the effects of interparental conflict on adolescents' psychological adjustment as mediated by cognitive (threat, self-blame, and triangulation) and contextual (maternal and paternal rejection) factors. The sample for this study consisted of 524 high school students (48 % boys and 52 % girls) ranging in age from 11 through 18 years (M = 13.28 years, SD = 1.14). The sample was selected from 19 schools of 3 major cities in Bangladesh. Data were collected using a package of selfreport measures that include: (1) the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale; (2 and 3) the Child version (short form) of the Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire for Mothers and for Fathers; (4) the Child version of the Personality Assessment Questionnaire; and (5), the Personal Information Form for demographic information. Results of Bootstrapping Multiple Mediation Analysis showed that both cognitive and contextual factors mediated the effects interparental conflict on adolescents' psychological maladjustment.
Development and Validation of Perceived Inter-Parental Conflict Scale for Adolescents
Volume 36, Issue 3, 2021
The study aimed to develop a culturally relevant scale to assess the perceived inter-parental conflicts in adolescents by using a mixed-method approach. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 10 adolescents of age range 14-18 years were conducted along with 3 focus groups of parents and teachers that helped to generate a pool of 88 items. Construct validity and psychometric properties were determined on a sample of 500 adolescent with age range 14-18 years (M = 15.28, SD = 1.07). Principal axis factoring through direct oblimin rotation method postulated 60 items with six distinct factors (named as overt conflicts, familial conflicts, conflicts related emotional reactivity, financial conflicts, child related conflicts, and psychological conflicts) that accounted for 38% variance. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for total scale was .94 and ranged from .63 to .92 for six emerged factors. The convergent and discriminant validity of the scale was also satisfactory. Perceived Inter-Par...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between parents' marriage conflict resolution styles and the adolescent conflict resolution behaviors, and to test the mediator role of the adolescent emotional regulation in this relationship. The study sample consisted of 186 students aged between 11 and 14 who were educated in secondary schools attached to the Ministry of National Education and their parents. "Conflict Resolution Styles Scale" for parents, "Conflict Resolution Behavior Scale" for adolescents and "Emotion Regulation Scale for Adolescents" were used for collecting data in the present study. The research findings show that there are significant relationships between some subscales of parent marriage conflict resolution styles and adolescent conflict resolution behaviors. According to this, the positive conflict resolution style of the mother is significantly related to the problem solving behavior of the adolescent, and the negative conflict resolution style of the mother is significantly related to the aggression behavior of the adolescent. On the other hand, the father's submissive conflict resolution style was found to be significantly correlated to the adolescent aggression behavior. Further, it has been found that internal functional emotion regulation has a partial mediating role and external dysfunctional emotion regulation has a fully mediating role in the relationship between mothers' negative marriage conflict resolution style and adolescent aggression behavior.