Family Conflict and Children’s Anxious and Depressive Symptoms
Impact of Family Conflict Versus Violent Victimization
Bidirectional Family-Child Effects
Present Study
Methods
Sample and Procedures
Measures
Sociodemographics
Maltreatment Prior to Recruitment
Family Conflict
Child Anxious and Depressive Symptoms
Cumulative Victimization
Caregiver Depressive Symptoms
Analytic Plan
Results
Missing Data
Sample Characteristics and Bivariate Correlations
Bidirectional Models of Family Conflict and Anxious-Depressed Symptoms
Invariance of Bidirectional Models Predicting Children’s Anxious-Depressed Behaviors
Gender
Model | χ2 | df | CFI | TLI | RMSEA | Δχ2 | Δdf |
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Gender
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Anxious-Dep Symptoms | |||||||
Unconstrained | 20.34 | 12 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 0.04 | - | - |
Fully Invariant | 87.07 | 71 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.02 | 71.16 | 59 |
Withdrawn-Dep Symptoms | |||||||
Unconstrained | 14.87 | 12 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.02 | - | - |
Fully Invariant | 87.72 | 71 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.02 | 73.56 | 59 |
Pre-recruitment Maltreatment
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Anxious-Dep Symptoms | |||||||
Unconstrained | 16.83 | 12 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 0.03 | - | - |
Fully Invariant | 97.60* | 71 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 0.03 | 82.10* | 59 |
Partially Invariant 1a | 84.93 | 70 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.02 | 70.16 | 58 |
Withdrawn-Dep Symptoms | |||||||
Unconstrained | 4.64 | 12 | 1.00 | 1.05 | 0.00 | - | - |
Fully Invariant | 110.52** | 71 | 0.98 | 0.96 | 0.03 | 100.07*** | 59 |
Partially Invariant 1b | 92.60* | 70 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.02 | 83.04* | 58 |
Partially Invariant 2c | 83.56 | 69 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.02 | 74.63 | 57 |