Abstract. Although children are known to be highly sensitive to interparental conflict, important questions remain regarding which specific combinations of positive and negative behaviors as well as verbal and nonverbal expressions are most predictive of children’s perceptions. In this pilot study, we examined observational data on interparental conflict as predictors of children’s reports of perceived threat and insecurity in 43 families. Fathers’ nonverbal negativity was strongly linked to children’s perceived threat and insecure family representations, but both parents’ nonverbal and mothers’ verbal positivity buffered its impact on children. Our findings support previous research findings that parents’ negativity may have less adverse effects on children when it takes place in a positive family climate.

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父母间冲突中的积极与消极

摘要。尽管众所周知，儿童对父母间的冲突高度敏感，但关于积极和消极行为以及语言和非语言表达的哪些特定组合最能预测儿童的看法，仍然存在重要问题。在这项试点研究中，我们检查了关于父母间冲突的观察数据，作为儿童报告感知威胁和不安全感的 43 个家庭的预测指标。父亲的非语言消极与孩子感知到的威胁和不安全的家庭表现密切相关，但父母的非语言和母亲的口头积极缓冲了其对孩子的影响。我们的研究结果支持之前的研究结果，即当父母的消极情绪发生在积极的家庭氛围中时，它对孩子的不利影响可能较小。