Faculty Articles
Family conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing behavior: Protective factors.
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
American Journal of Community Psychology
ISSN
0091-0562
Publication Date
4-2000
Abstract
The current investigation examined whether the positive association of family conflict to adolescent depression and conduct problems is attenuated by maternal, paternal, and peer attachment, and maternal and paternal monitoring, within a low-income, multiethnic sample of 284 adolescents. Parental attachment and monitoring moderated the link from family conflict to conduct problems but not depression; the relationships among family conflict, the hypothesized protective factors, and conduct problems were further modified by adolescent gender but not ethnicity. In general, higher levels of the hypothesized protective factors attenuated the relationship between family conflict and conduct problems for girls but exacerbated this relationship for boys. These findings suggest that, in general, parental attachment and monitoring served as protective factors for girls while serving as additional risk factors for boys in conflictual families.
DOI
10.1023/A:1005135217449
Volume
28
Issue
2
First Page
175
Last Page
199
NSUWorks Citation
Formoso, D.,
Gonzales, N. A.,
Aiken, L. S.
(2000). Family conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing behavior: Protective factors.. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28(2), 175-199.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/135
