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05 SES 05.5 PS, General Poster Session
General Poster Session
Contribution
Family is one of the most important systems in child’s life. Family is considered a system because it consists of interrelated elements, it displays coherent behaviors, includes regular interactions and their members are interdependent on one another (Guerin, 1976). It can be viewed as one system as a whole or as the interaction between parent-child subsystem and marital subsystem (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013; Guerin, 1976). These subsystems overlap and strongly contribute to the development of the child. Each member of the system influences every other member, and any change in one part of the family system triggers a change in other parts of the system and the system as a whole. Therefore conflict within the family system influences both parents and children. Specifically, interparental conflicts influence the way child perceives the family system and its own role in the system. This study aims to determine how children’s age moderates the relation between children’s perception of their role in interparental conflict and destructive family representations. More specifically, it aims to determine whether the role child has during interparental conflict influences the child’s perception of the destructive consequences of the conflict on the family, depending of the child’s age. The sample consists of 146 children (44.9% boys and 55.1% girls), average age of 13.18 years. 90.3% children live with both parents who are married, and 9.7% have separated or divorced parents. According to the socioeconomic status of the family, the sample includes 64.4% of the families with average, 13% with below average, and 22.6% with above average socioeconomic status. Data was collected from children of elementary school in Serbia. For every child the parental informed consent for the participation in the study was obtained.
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References
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