Guided by the emotional security hypothesis developed by Davies & Cummings (1994),
studies were conducted to test a conceptual refinement of children's adjustment to parental …

… awarded to Gordon Harold from the Economic and Social Research Council (R000222569),
and by a grant awarded to Gordon Harold and E. Mark Cummings from the British Academy. …

BackgroundExposure to prenatal stress is associated with later adverse health and adjustment
outcomes. This is generally presumed to arise through early environmentally mediated …

In these two studies. the authors used children's perceptions of family relationships to examine
simultaneously direct and indirect links between marital conflict and child adjustment. …

Background: An increasing number of children are placed in foster care (ie, a kin or nonkin
family home other than the biological parent) due to experiences of physical, sexual, …

Poor executive function ( EF ) has been associated with a host of short‐ and long‐term
problems across the lifespan, including elevated rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, …

Children with persistent antisocial and aggressive behavior are diagnosed as having disruptive
behavior disorder. The authors review evidence that antisocial children, and especially …

The present longitudinal study (1989-1991) of seventh-grade adolescents (173 boys, 197
girls; M age = 12.7 in 1989) living in the rural Midwest examined the influence of children's …

Background: We review the evidence for the familiality of major depressive disorder (MDD)
and the genetic aetiology of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. Methods: …

A sample of 150 recently married couples provided data egarding marital satisfaction and
depressive symptoms Approximatey 18 months later, 116 of these couples provided complete …