title: The Interactive Effects of Marital Conflict and Divorce on Parent-Adult Children's Relationships.
abstract: This study examines main effect and interactive models of the relations between marital conflict, divorce, and parent-adult child relationships, and gender differences in these relations. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of a community sample (N = 585). Parental marital conflict and divorce were measured from age 5 through age 17. Mother-child and father-child relationship quality at age 22 was assessed in terms of Closeness-Support and Conflict-Control. Results indicate that both marital conflict and divorce were associated with poorer quality of parent-adult child relationships. Divorce moderated the link between marital conflict and subsequent negativity in mother-child relationships, with the estimated effects being stronger in continuously married families than in divorced families, especially for women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2052C East Hall, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, ,  yutianyi@umich.edu.
authors.forename: Tianyi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Gregory S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Pettit
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lansford
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Dodge
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bates