Dyadic and Triadic Family Interactions as Simultaneous Predictors of Children's Externalizing Behaviors

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyadic and triadic family interactions and their association with the development of children's externalizing behaviors. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of family interactions (N = 125), followed from before pare...

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Published inFamily relations Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 346 - 359
Main Authors Murphy, Sarah E., Boyd-Soisson, Erin, Jacobvitz, Deborah B., Hazen, Nancy L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, USA Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2017
National Council on Family Relations
Subjects
Aggression
Behavior
Child development
Children
Children & youth
Competition
Coparenting
Couples
Dyads
emotion socialization
Emotions
externalizing behaviors
Externalizing behaviour
Families & family life
Family relations
FAMILY SYSTEMS
Fathers
Longitudinal Studies
Mother-child relations
Mothers
Parent Child Relationship
Parent-child relations
Parents & parenting
Psychology
Quality
Social change
Social development
Socialization
Teenagers
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Summary:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyadic and triadic family interactions and their association with the development of children's externalizing behaviors. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of family interactions (N = 125), followed from before parents had their first child until children were 7 years old. Family interactions (marital father–child, mother–child, and triadic mother–father–child) were observed in separate interaction tasks when children were 24 months old as predictors of children's externalizing behaviors at age 7 (n = 71 children). Results demonstrated that the triadic measure of competitive coparenting and the dyadic mother–child interaction characterized by negative emotional socialization related to children's later externalizing behavior, even after controlling for covariates and effects of all other family interaction variables. Results emphasize the importance of examining the family holistically and provided new information for designing more effective whole-family interventions to reduce the development of children's externalizing behaviors.
ISSN:0197-6664
1741-3729
0197-6664
DOI:10.1111/fare.12225