Although such insecure representations may be adaptive by enhancing children’s ability to identify danger cues in high-conflict homes, maladaptive implications for their long-term adjustment are reported. Presuming to serve as schemata for guiding decisions and information processing, they have emerged to be a primary intervening mechanism in the association between inter parental conflict and children’s academic maladjustment over 2 years (Sturge-Apple, Davies, Winter, Cummings, & Schermerhorn, 2008).