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  • Title: Role of parent-child relationships in mediating the effects of marital disruption.
    Author: Black AE, Pedro-Carroll J.
    Journal: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry; 1993 Sep; 32(5):1019-27. PubMed ID: 8407746.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: This study sought to explore the long-term effects of and relationships between parental divorce, interparental conflict, and parent-child relationships on interpersonal and generalized trust, empathy, dependency, and depressive affect among late adolescents. METHOD: Self-administered questionnaire data were collected from a sample of 288 college students (including 60 children of divorce). Participants were asked to rate current and past levels of interparental conflict, the current affective quality of their parent-child relationships, and present adjustment. RESULTS: Path analyses revealed that the effects of interparental conflict on psychological well-being were mediated by parent-child relationships. For women, however, parental divorce also was found to affect adjustment indirectly (via disrupted father-daughter relationships), although no such path emerged for men. CONCLUSIONS: The findings are part of a growing literature documenting the role of parent-child relationships in mediating the effects of marital disruption. In addition to efforts to resolve marital conflict, clinicians may want to focus on enhancing mother-child, father-child relationships as a way to modify the damaging effects of conflictual marital relations on children and adolescents.
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