The Interactive Effects of Marital Conflict and Divorce on Parent-Adult Children's Relationships.
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.
Yu
Tianyi
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Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2052C East Hall, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, ,  yutianyi@umich.edu.
Pettit
Gregory S
GS
Lansford
Jennifer E
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Dodge
Kenneth A
KA
Bates
John E
JE