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Maternal Sensitive Guidance during Reminiscing in the Context of Child Maltreatment: Implications for Child Self-Regulatory Processes
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Speidel, Ruth; Valentino, Kristin; McDonnell, Christina G.; Cummings, E. Mark; Fondren, Kaitlin – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The manner in which mothers engage in emotional discussion, or reminisce, with their young children about past emotional experiences poses important ramifications for child socioemotional and cognitive development. Maltreating mothers may have difficulty engaging in emotionally supportive reminiscing. The current study examined the role of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Recall (Psychology), Child Development
Children's Security in the Context of Family Instability and Maternal Communications
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Winter, Marcia A.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
This multimethod study examined the association between family instability and children's internal representations of security in the family system within the context of maternal communications about disruptive family events. Participants included 224 kindergarten children (100 boys and 124 girls) and their parents. Parents reported on the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Kindergarten, Communications, Family Problems
Longitudinal Pathways of Family Influence on Child Self-Regulation: The Roles of Parenting, Family Expressiveness, and Maternal Sensitive Guidance in the Context of Child Maltreatment
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Speidel, Ruth; Wang, Lijuan; Cummings, E. Mark; Valentino, Kristin – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Maltreated children are susceptible to dysregulation, but developmental mechanisms at the family level that influence this process are understudied. In the current investigation, 4 mediators (positive parenting, positive and negative family expressiveness, and maternal sensitive guidance during reminiscing) were examined as process variables…
Descriptors: Self Control, Mothers, Child Abuse, Longitudinal Studies
Maternal Religiosity, Family Resources and Stressors, and Parent-Child Attachment Security in Northern Ireland
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Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Cairns, Ed; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark – Social Development, 2013
This study explores the associations between mothers' religiosity, and families' and children's functioning in a stratified random sample of 695 Catholic and Protestant mother-child dyads in socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a region which has experienced centuries of sectarian conflict between Protestant Unionists and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Religion, Religious Factors, Correlation
The Role of Maternal Communication Patterns about Interparental Disputes in Associations between Interparental Conflict and Child Psychological Maladjustment
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Gomulak-Cavicchio, Beata M.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The present study examined the role of mothers' communication with children about interparental disputes in associations between interparental conflict and child psychological maladjustment in a sample of 227 children and their parents followed over a one-year span. Most of the time (i.e., 79.8%) mothers reported that they would communicate with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict, Child Psychology
Marital Conflict and Children's Emotional Security in the Context of Parental Depression
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Kouros, Chrystyna D.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Cummings, E. Mark – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
Evidence has emerged for emotional security as an explanatory variable linking marital conflict to children's adjustment. Further evidence suggests parental psychopathology is a key factor in child development. To advance understanding of the pathways by which these family risk factors impact children's development, the mediational role of…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Conflict, Parents, Psychopathology