Marital conflict and children's externalizing behavior : interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity

El-Sheikh, Mona. (Added Author). Beauchaine, Theodore P. (Added Author). Moore, Ginger A. (Added Author).

Summary: "Toward greater specificity in the prediction of externalizing problems in the context of interparental conflict, interactions between children's parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system (PNS and SNS) activity were examined as moderators."--cf. back cover.

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Physical Description: print
viii, 101 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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Introduction -- Interactions among marital conflict, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems activity in the prediction of children's externalizing problems -- Additional testing of three-way interactions in an independent sample -- Additional consideration of the role of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems activity in a sample of 6-12-year-olds. -- Discussion -- References -- Commentary: Some difficulties in interpreting psychophysiological research with children / Theodore P. Beauchaine -- When negative is positive / Ginger A. Moore.