TY - JOUR
T1 - Poverty, household chaos, and interparental aggression predict children's ability to recognize and modulate negative emotions
AU - Raver, C. Cybele
AU - Blair, Clancy
AU - Garrett-Peters, Patricia
AU - Vernon-Feagans, Lynne
AU - Greenberg, Mark
AU - Cox, Martha
AU - Burchinal, Peg
AU - Willoughby, Michael
AU - Mills-Koonce, Roger
AU - Ittig, Maureen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014.
PY - 2015/8/21
Y1 - 2015/8/21
N2 - The following prospective longitudinal study considers the ways that protracted exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may take a substantial toll on emotional adjustment for 1,025 children followed from 6 to 58 months of age. Exposure to chronic poverty from infancy to early childhood as well as multiple measures of household chaos were also included as predictors of children's ability to recognize and modulate negative emotions in order to disentangle the role of interparental conflict from the socioeconomic forces that sometimes accompany it. Analyses revealed that exposure to greater levels of interparental conflict, more chaos in the household, and a higher number of years in poverty can be empirically distinguished as key contributors to 58-month-olds' ability to recognize and modulate negative emotion. Implications for models of experiential canalization of emotional processes within the context of adversity are discussed.
AB - The following prospective longitudinal study considers the ways that protracted exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may take a substantial toll on emotional adjustment for 1,025 children followed from 6 to 58 months of age. Exposure to chronic poverty from infancy to early childhood as well as multiple measures of household chaos were also included as predictors of children's ability to recognize and modulate negative emotions in order to disentangle the role of interparental conflict from the socioeconomic forces that sometimes accompany it. Analyses revealed that exposure to greater levels of interparental conflict, more chaos in the household, and a higher number of years in poverty can be empirically distinguished as key contributors to 58-month-olds' ability to recognize and modulate negative emotion. Implications for models of experiential canalization of emotional processes within the context of adversity are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579414000935
DO - 10.1017/S0954579414000935
M3 - Article
C2 - 25215541
AN - SCOPUS:84944865956
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 27
SP - 695
EP - 708
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 3
ER -
