TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of cognitive appraisals and triangulation into interparental conflict
T2 - Implications for adolescent adjustment
AU - Fosco, Gregory M.
AU - Bray, Bethany C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of participating youth in this study and Hamilton High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the success of this project. We would like to thank Dr. John Grych for the use of these data. This project was supported in part by the Karl R. and Diane Wendle Fink Early Career Professorship for the Study of Families awarded to Gregory M. Fosco. Bethany C. Bray's contributions were supported by awards P50-DA0170075 and P50-DA039838 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2016/3/10
Y1 - 2016/3/10
N2 - Youth appraisals and triangulation into conflicts are key mechanisms by which interparental conflict places youth at risk for psychological maladjustment. Although evidence suggests that there are multiple mechanisms at work (e.g., Fosco & Feinberg, 2015; Grych, Harold, & Miles, 2003), this body of work has relied on variable-centered analyses that are limited to the unique contributions of each process to the variance in outcomes. In reality, it is possible that different combinations of these risk mechanisms may account for multifinality in risk outcomes. Using latent profile analysis (LPA) we examined profiles of threat appraisals, self-blaming attributions, and triangulation in relation to internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of 285, ethnically diverse high school students. The current analyses revealed 5 distinct profiles of appraisals and triangulation, including an overall low-risk group and a global high-risk group, in which all 3 processes were below average or above average, respectively. Additional profiles included combinations of threat and blame, threat and triangulation, and blame and triangulation. Links between these profiles and emotional distress, problem behavior, and academic outcomes are discussed.
AB - Youth appraisals and triangulation into conflicts are key mechanisms by which interparental conflict places youth at risk for psychological maladjustment. Although evidence suggests that there are multiple mechanisms at work (e.g., Fosco & Feinberg, 2015; Grych, Harold, & Miles, 2003), this body of work has relied on variable-centered analyses that are limited to the unique contributions of each process to the variance in outcomes. In reality, it is possible that different combinations of these risk mechanisms may account for multifinality in risk outcomes. Using latent profile analysis (LPA) we examined profiles of threat appraisals, self-blaming attributions, and triangulation in relation to internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of 285, ethnically diverse high school students. The current analyses revealed 5 distinct profiles of appraisals and triangulation, including an overall low-risk group and a global high-risk group, in which all 3 processes were below average or above average, respectively. Additional profiles included combinations of threat and blame, threat and triangulation, and blame and triangulation. Links between these profiles and emotional distress, problem behavior, and academic outcomes are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1037/fam0000192
DO - 10.1037/fam0000192
M3 - Article
C2 - 26963695
AN - SCOPUS:84959890415
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 30
SP - 533
EP - 542
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 5
ER -