Social information processing mediates the intergenerational transmission of aggressiveness in romantic relationships.

Full Abstract

This study explored the K. A. Dodge (1986) model of social information processing as a mediator of the association between interparental relationship conflict and subsequent offspring romantic relationship conflict in young adulthood. The authors tested 4 social information processing stages (encoding, hostile attributions, generation of aggressive responses, and positive evaluation of aggressive responses) in separate models to explore their independent effects as potential mediators. There was no evidence of mediation for encoding and attributions. However, there was evidence of significant mediation for both the response generation and response evaluation stages of the model. Results suggest that the ability of offspring to generate varied social responses and effectively evaluate the potential outcome of their responses at least partially mediates the intergenerational transmission of relationship conflict.

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Author information

Author/s: Fite, Jennifer E (JE); Bates, John E (JE); Holtzworth-Munroe, Amy (A); Dodge, Kenneth A (KA); Nay, Sandra Y (SY); Pettit, Gregory S (GS);

Affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. jefite(-atsign-)indiana.edu

Grants: HD30572 (Agency:United States NICHD) ; MH42498 (Agency:United States NIMH) ; MH56961 (Agency:United States NIMH) ; MH57024 (Agency:United States NIMH) ; MH57095 (Agency:United States NIMH)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) (J Fam Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Jun; vol 22 (issue 3) : pp 367-76

Dates: Created 2008/06/10; Completed 2008/08/21;

PMID: 18540765, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aggression - psychology
Child
Child, Preschool
Conflict (Psychology)
Courtship - psychology
Female
Hostility

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