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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2013 Nov;25(4 0 2):1435–1454. doi: 10.1017/S0954579413000709

Table 3.

A Brief Synopsis of Precursors of the SDS Profiles.

Interparental Properties Family Characteristics Child Attributes
Secure
  • Negligible or mild anger

  • No violence or aggression

  • Portrayals of parental competence and emotional stability (e.g., problem-solving, cohesion)

  • Parent-child attachment security

  • Parent responsiveness

  • Parent emotion coaching

  • Family cohesiveness

  • High effortful control

  • High soothability

  • Low distress proneness

  • High planning & flexibility

Mobilizing
  • Anger escalation and hostility

  • Minimal to modest violence

  • Child-related content

  • Some resolution

  • Family enmeshment

  • Moderate parental responsiveness

  • “Frightened” parental behavior

  • Parent psychological control

  • Resistant parent-child attachment

  • Low effortful control

  • High distress proneness

  • Low soothability

  • High impulsivity

  • High approach

Dominant
  • Anger escalation and hostility

  • Disengagement and detachment

  • Vulnerable parental emotion (e.g., worry, dysphoria)

  • Little to mild violence

  • No resolution

  • “Frightened” parental behavior

  • Parent unresponsiveness and apathy

  • Avoidant or punitive-controlling attachment

  • Parent-child coercive process

  • Family enmeshment

  • Family chaos and instability

  • Low effortful control

  • Low to moderate distress proneness

  • High impulsivity

  • High anger proneness

  • High boldness

Demobilizing
  • Anger escalation and hostility

  • Violence and aggression

  • Child-related content

  • Coerciveness and volatility

  • No resolution

  • Parent alliance against child

  • Parental unresponsiveness

  • High parental abuse potential

  • “Frightening” parent behavior

  • Parent intolerance of affect expression

  • Disorganized attachment

  • High behavior inhibition

  • Low impulsivity

  • Moderate effortful control

  • Low sensitivity to reward