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Maternal Health And Child Behaviors As Risk Factors For Child Injury, Christina J. Nicolais
Maternal Health And Child Behaviors As Risk Factors For Child Injury, Christina J. Nicolais
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Evidence suggests that child behavior, parent mental health, parent supervision, and home environment conditions impact a child’s risk of injury. Vulnerable families are at greater risk for the occurrence of child behavior problems, poor health, decreased supervision, and hazardous home conditions. Consistent with a model that proposes that parent, child, and environment factors interact within the lens of sociocultural factors to predict injury, the current study aimed to test a statistical model with maternal physical health and child externalizing behaviors as predictors of child injury, and home hazards and supervision as mediators of these relations. Analyses were conducted using a …
The Role Of Social Information Processing In The Relation Between Interparental Conflict And Child Aggression, Kimberly Parker
The Role Of Social Information Processing In The Relation Between Interparental Conflict And Child Aggression, Kimberly Parker
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Crick and Dodge’s SIP theoretical model proposes that children use previously stored memories, past experiences, and formed representations that influence six mechanisms that are in turn used in deciding how to act in social situations (Crick & Dodge, 1994). Research has demonstrated a strong link between social information processing (SIP) and child aggression. Furthermore, SIP has been shown to mediate the relation between several parenting practices and child aggression. Research has also shown a strong relation between interparental conflict and child aggression. The focus of the current study was to determine if SIP serves as a mediator between parental conflict …