Understanding Differences Between Divorced and Intact Families: Stress, Interaction, and Child OutcomeHow do divorced and intact families differ? Is there a link between parental divorce and child adjustment? How do parents and children in divorced families interact differently from those in intact families? Offering insights on these and other questions, the contributors begin by presenting a model of the impact parental divorce has on child development. They emphasize the ways in which family structure, differences in stress and parental adjustment account for the fact that children of divorced parents show more conduct and emotional problems than do those from intact families. The subsequent chapters test the various components of the model. |
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The Sample Data Collection Procedures and Measures | 21 |
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Understanding Differences between Divorced and Intact Families: Stress ... Ronald L. Simons No preview available - 1996 |
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adolescent depressed mood adults affiliation with deviant Amato analyses antisocial behavior antisocial tendencies association between family Chapter child adjustment child development child outcomes children of divorce clinical depression conduct problems Conger correlation Cronbach's alpha delinquent behavior developmental deviant behavior Distressed Marriage divorced families divorced mothers divorced women economic pressure effect of family emotional factors family processes family structure differences findings gender happily married hypothesis increases indicate influence intact families Iowa State University living marital breakup marital disruption married women measure mediational mother's inept parenting mother's parenting negative events negative life events nonresidential fathers parental divorce parenting practices path coefficients Patterson persons predivorce psychological distress quality of parenting relationship between family reported risk RONALD L sample scores sexual intercourse sibling hostility sibling interactions Simons single parents single-parent families social support stress structural equation modeling structure and child studies suggests Table target two-parent families variables