تعارض زناشويي ، ارزيابي و مقابله شناختي كودك با تعارضات والدين و نشانه هاي آسيب شناختي و سلامت كودك

Marital conflict, childrenʹs appraisals of interparental conflict and cognitive cop¬ing and their psychopathological symptoms and health

In the recent years, Cognitive Theory of Stress (Lazarus, 1991) is presented as a theory for adult­hood. This research examined the relationship between stress, cognitive appraisal and coping and the role of this relationship in affective-behavioral symp­toms and physical and psychosocial health in chil­dren. We used a stratified random sampling procedure in recruiting 413 fifth grade school children in the city of Tehran (220 girls & 193 boys). Children responded to the Childrenʹs Perception of Interparental Conflict (CPIC) scale, mothers responded to the overt hostili­ty questionnaire of OʹLeary - Porter Scale (OPS) and the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ), and mothers and teachers responded to the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Results indicated the relationship between marital conflict with chil­drenʹs appraisals of interparental conflict and cogni­tive coping. Also we found that marital conflict and childrenʹs appraisals and coping can predict their psy­chopathological symptoms and health. In addition, marital conflict and childrenʹs appraisal of inter­parental conflict interact to predict their affective- behavioral symptoms. The results in the form of Cognitive-Contextual Framework, Stress-Appraisal- Coping Theory and Developmental Systems Perspective in child psychopathology, confirm the independent and interactional role of two risk factors, marital conflict and childrenʹs negative appraisals, in their psychopathological symptoms and health prob­lems.