id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9c67wm1384s Alice C. Schermerhorn Child Agency, Marital Conflict, and Child Mental Health 2005 .txt text/plain 360 12 4 Longitudinal analyses were consistent with these relations, and revealed that behavioral dysregulation predicts subsequent adjustment problems, but that adjustment problems do not predict subsequent behavioral dysregulation. Consistent with emotional security theory (EST, Davies & Cummings, 1994) and clinical theory and research, this research advances previous work by operationalizing and examining the independent contributions of agentic behavior, behavioral dysregulation, and perceptions of agency to subsequent marital conflict; examining links between behavioral responses, marital conflict, and mental health over time; and testing developmental change in children's behavioral responses to conflict. cache/9c67wm1384s.txt txt/9c67wm1384s.txt