Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Regardless of the theoretical explanation-all of which have merit-it is valuable to view the links between parental conflict and child adjustment as reciprocal and transactional, not a one-way effect from parents to children. When Cummings and his colleagues examined the relations between parental discord and child out-comes across three time points, they found that parental discord at the first time predicted children's negative emotional reactivity at the second time. Children's negative reactivity was related to dysregulated behavior (children did more yelling and causing trouble) and agentic behavior (children made more efforts to intervene in their parents' conflicts). Children's agentic behavior then predicted decreased parental discord at the third time point (Schermerhorn et al., 2007). Children's agentic behavior also was related to more conflict resolution by their parents (Schermerhorn et al., 2010). This suggests that as a result of their children's efforts, parents might have become more aware of the negative effects of their marital discord and, as a consequence, reduced their overt conflict and sought out conflict resolutions. Children's dysregulated behavior and negativity, in contrast, predicted increases in marital discord and elevations in children's adjustment problems. Need Assignment Help?