title: A typology of interpartner conflict and maternal parenting practices in high-risk families: examining spillover and compensatory models and implications for child adjustment.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester.
authors.forename: Melissa L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sturge-Apple
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester.
authors.forename: Patrick T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center.
authors.forename: Dante
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cicchetti
authors.affiliation: Mt. Hope Family Center.
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Fittoria
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
chemical_list: D006854:Hydrocortisone