Early Predictors: The Impact of Childhood Exposure to Interparental Conflict on Developmental Outcomes for Emotion Self-Regulation and Related Problem Behaviour.

This cross-sectional study with 479 adolescents aged 17-19 years examined the association between children’s exposure to interparental conflict, and degree of emotion self-regulation (ESR) capacity and problem behaviour during adolescence. Findings revealed that ESR predicted problem behaviour, and parent-child relationship quality moderated the association between interparental conflict and children’s ESR.