Among 7+ adolescents, interparental conflict and positivity affected threat appraisals and internalizing problems primarily through child perceived interparental positivity. For example, the couple conflict/positivity → adolescent perceived interparental positivity → threat appraisals paths (indirect paths 2 and 3 in Table 2), were marginally significant. In addition, these pathways to threat were significantly larger among 7+ adolescents compared to 7− adolescents (see Table 2). Furthermore, the adolescent perceptions of interparental positivity → threat appraisals → internalizing problems path also was significant (indirect path 6) and was significantly different from the path for the 7− group. These results suggest the primary pathway by which interparental relationships affect threat appraisals and internalizing problems among 7+ adolescents appears to be perceptions of interparental positivity rather than conflict per se. The couple conflict → threat appraisals → internalizing problems path was significant for both groups of adolescents (indirect path 7) and did not significantly differ. Last, none of the four-step pathways from couple conflict/positivity to internalizing problems (8, 9, 10, and 11) were significant among 7+ adolescents. Nonetheless, pathway 9 did differ across genotypes. The meaning of this difference is ambiguous given that neither indirect effect was significantly different from zero.
