Children's insecure representations of the interparental relationship and their school adjustment: the mediating role of attention difficulties |
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Authors: | Davies Patrick T Woitach Meredith J Winter Marcia A Cummings E Mark |
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Institution: | Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. patrick.davies@rochester.edu |
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Abstract: | This study examined the role of attention difficulties as a mediator of associations between children's insecure representations of the interparental relationship and their school adjustment in a sample of two hundred and sixteen 6-year-old children. Consistent with hypotheses, findings from structural equation models indicated that observer ratings of children's insecure representations of interparental relationships in a story completion task predicted computerized task assessments and parent reports of children's attention difficulties 1 year later. Children's attention difficulties, in turn, were associated with concurrent levels of school problems and increases in school problems over a 1-year period as indexed by teacher reports. Attention difficulties accounted for an average of 34% of the association between insecure internal representations and school problems. |
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