caa a22 4500 463198808 CHVBK 20180406164930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10896-007-9083-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10896-007-9083-1 Variations in Behavior Problems of Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence: The Role of Mothers' Attunement to Children's Emotional Experiences [Elektronische Daten] [Vanessa Johnson, Alicia Lieberman] The purpose of this study was to identify aspects of family relationships that may protect young children from the pathogenic effects of family violence. Using a sample of 30 preschool-age children whose mothers were physically abused by a partner, we investigated the associations between children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems and: (1) the quality of the mother-child relationship, and (2) mothers' attunement to their child's sad and angry emotions. Results indicated that clinician ratings of the mother-child relationship, and mothers' attunement to their child's experience of emotion each made a unique contribution to the prediction of children's externalizing behavior. These relationships remained robust, even after taking the severity of domestic violence reported by mothers into consideration. Maternal attunement, however, did not mediate the relationship between marital conflict and children's behavior problems. No significant link was found between children's internalizing behavior and maternal attunement to their children's sadness and anger. Additional findings suggested that mothers with a PTSD diagnosis tended to be less attuned to their child's experience of sadness. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Domestic violence nationallicence Preschoolers nationallicence Maternal attunement nationallicence Behavior problems nationallicence Johnson Vanessa Department of Psychology, West Chester University, 19383, West Chester, PA, USA aut Lieberman Alicia Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA aut Journal of Family Violence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/5(2007-07-01), 297-308 0885-7482 22:5<297 2007 22 10896 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9083-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9083-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson Vanessa Department of Psychology, West Chester University, 19383, West Chester, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lieberman Alicia Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Family Violence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 22/5(2007-07-01), 297-308 0885-7482 22:5<297 2007 22 10896 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer