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A typology of interpartner conflict and maternal parenting practices in high-risk families: Examining spillover and compensatory models and implications for child adjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2014

Melissa L. Sturge-Apple*
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center
Patrick T. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center
Dante Cicchetti
Affiliation:
Mt. Hope Family Center University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development
Michael G. Fittoria
Affiliation:
Mt. Hope Family Center
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Melissa Sturge-Apple, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; E-mail: melissa.sturge-apple@rochester.edu.

Abstract

The present study incorporates a person-based approach to identify spillover and compartmentalization patterns of interpartner conflict and maternal parenting practices in an ethnically diverse sample of 192 2-year-old children and their mothers who had experienced higher levels of socioeconomic risk. In addition, we tested whether sociocontextual variables were differentially predictive of theses profiles and examined how interpartner-parenting profiles were associated with children's physiological and psychological adjustment over time. As expected, latent class analyses extracted three primary profiles of functioning: adequate functioning, spillover, and compartmentalizing families. Furthermore, interpartner-parenting profiles were differentially associated with both sociocontextual predictors and children's adjustment trajectories. The findings highlight the developmental utility of incorporating person-based approaches to models of interpartner conflict and maternal parenting practices.

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