Marital discord, divorce, and children’s well-being: Results from a 20-year longitudinal study of two generations

Families Count: Effects on Child and Adolescent Development

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 179-202

  Amato, Paul R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249093306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511616259.009     Document Type: Chapter

References (51)

1. Adams, K. S., Bouckoms, A., & Streiner, D. (1982). Parental loss and family stability in attempted suicide. Archives of General Psychiatry, 39, 1081–1085.
2. Allison, P. D.(2001). Missing data. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
3. Amato, P. R., & Booth, A.(1997). A generation at risk: Growing up in an era of family upheaval. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
4. Amato, P. R., & Booth, A. (2001). The legacy of marital discord: Consequences for children’s marital quality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 627–638.
5. Amato, P. R., & DeBoer, D. (2001). The transmission of divorce across generations: Relationship skills or commitment to marriage? Journal of Marriage and Family, 63, 1038–1051.
6. Amato, P. R., & Keith, B. (1991). Separation from a parent during childhood and adult socioeconomic attainment. Social Forces, 70, 187–206.
7. Amato, P. R., Loomis, L. S., & Booth, A. (1995). Parental divorce, marital conflict, and offspring well-being in early adulthood.” Social Forces, 73, 895–916.
8. Amato, P. R., & Sobolewski, J. M. (2001). The effects of divorce and marital discord on adult children’s psychological well-being. American Sociological Review, 66, 900–921.
9. Aquilino, W. S.(1991). Family structure and home-leaving: A further specification of the relationship. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 999–1010.
10. Arnett, J. 2000. Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. American Psychologist, 55, 469–480.
11. Bailey, K. D.(1994). Typologies and taxonomies: An introduction to classification techniques. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
12. Booth, A., & Amato, P. R. (2001). Parental predivorce relations and offspring postdivorce well-being. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 197–212.
13. Brodzinsky, D., Hitt, J. C., & Smith, D. (1993). Impact of parental separation and divorce on adopted and nonadopted children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 63, 451–461.
14. Bumpass, L. L., Martin, T. C., & Sweet, J. A. (1991). The impact of family background and early marital factors on marital disruption. Journal of Family Issues, 12, 22–42.
15. Capaldi, D. M., & Patterson, G. R. (1991). The relation of parental transitions to boys’ adjustment problems: I. A linear hypothesis, and II. Mothers at risk for transitions and unskilled parenting. Developmental Psychology, 27, 489–504.
16. Caspi, A., & Elder, G. H. Jr. (1988). Emergent family patterns: The intergenerational construction of problem behavior and relationships. In R. A. Hinde & J. Stevenson-Hinde (Eds.), Relationships within families (pp. 218–240). New York: Oxford University Press.
17. Cherlin, A., Chase-Lansdale, J. P. L., & McRae, C. (1998). Effects of divorce on mental health throughout the life course. American Sociological Review, 63, 239–49.
18. Conger, R. D., Cui, M., Bryant, C. M., & Elder, G. H. Jr. (2000). Competence in early adult romantic relationships: A developmental perspective on family influences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 224–237.
19. Cummings, E. M.(1987). Coping with background anger in early childhood. Child Development, 58, 976–984.
20. Davies, P. T., & Cummings, E. M. (1994). Marital conflict and child adjustment: An emotional security hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin, 116, 387–411.
21. Demo, D. H., & Acock, A. C. (1996) Family structure, family process, and adolescent well-being. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 6, 457–488.
22. Emery, R. E.(1999). Marriage, divorce, and children’s adjustment. (2nd ed). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
23. Furstenberg, F. F. (2000). The sociology of adolescents and youth in the 1990s: A critical commentary. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 896–910.
24. Gottman, J. M.(1994). What predicts divorce? Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
25. Grych, J. H., & Fincham, F. D. (1990). Marital conflict and children’s adjustment: A cognitive-contextual framework. Psychological Bulletin, 108, 267–290.
26. Guidubaldi, J., Cleminshaw, H. K., Perry, J. D., Nastasi, B. K., & Lightel, J. (1986). The role of selected family environment factors in children’s post-divorce adjustment. Family Relations, 35, 141–151.
27. Hanson, T. L.(1999). Does parental conflict explain why divorce is negatively associated with child welfare? Social Forces, 77, 1283–1316.
28. Heckman, J. J.(1979). Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrics, 47, 153–161.
29. Hetherington, E. M.(1993). An overview of the Virginia Longitudinal Study of Divorce and Remarriage with a focus on early adolescence. Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 39–56.
30. Hetherington, E. M. (2001). Intimate pathways: Changing patterns in close personal relationships across time. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Rochester, New York.
31. Jekielek, S. M.(1998). Parental conflict, marital disruption and children’s emotional well-being. Social Forces, 76, 905–935.
32. Jockin, V., McGue, M., & Lykken, D. T. (1996). Personality and divorce: A genetic analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 288–299.
33. Johnston, J. R., Kline, M., & Tschann, J. M. (1989). Ongoing postdivorce conflict: Effects on children of joint custody and frequent access. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 59, 576–592.
34. Kendler, K. S., Neale, M. C., Kessler, R. C., Heath, A. C., & Eaves, L. J. (1992). Childhood parental loss and adult psychopathology in women. Archives of General Psychiatry, 49, 109–116.
35. Kessler, R. C., & Magee, W. J. (1993). “Childhood adversities and adult depression: Basic patterns of association in a U.S. national sample.” Psychological Medicine, 23, 679–90.
36. Kitson, G. C.(1992). Portrait of divorce: Adjustment to marital breakdown. New York: Guilford Press.
37. Langner, T. S.(1962). A twenty-two item screening score of psychiatric symptoms indicating impairment. Journal of Health and Human Behavior, 3, 269–76.
38. Manning, W. D., & Smock, P. J. (1999). New families and nonresident father-child visitation. Social Forces, 78, 87–116.
39. McGue, M., & Lykken, D.T. (1992). Genetic influence on risk of divorce. Psychological Science, 3, 368–373.
40. McLanahan, S., & Sandefur, G.(1994). Growing up in a single-parent family: What helps, what hurts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
41. Mutulsky, H., & Christopoulos, A.(2003). Fitting models to biological data using linear and nonlinear regression. San Diego, CA: Graphpad Software.
42. O’Connor, T. G., Caspi, A., DeFries, J. C., & Plomin, R. (2000). Are associations between parental divorce and children’s adjustment genetically mediated? An adoption study. Developmental Psychology, 36, 429–437.
43. Ooms, T., Bouchet, S., & Parke, M.(2004). Beyond marriage licenses: Efforts in states to strengthen marriage and two-parent families. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.
44. Overall, J. E., Henry, B. W., & Woodward, A. (1974). Dependence of marital problems on parental family history. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 83, 446–50.
45. Rosenberg, M.(1965). Society and adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
46. Ross, C. E., & Mirowsky, J (1999). Parental divorce, life-course disruption, and adult depression. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 1034–45.
47. Simons, R. L. and Associates. (1996). Understanding differences between divorced and intact families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
48. Tallman, I., Gray, L. N., Kullberg, V., & Henderson, D. (1999). The intergenerational transmission of marital conflict: Testing a process model. Social Psychology Quarterly, 62, 219–239.
49. Thompson, L., & Walker, A. J. (1989). Gender in families: Women and men in marriage, work, and parenthood. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51, 845–871.
50. Wolfinger, N. H.(1999). Trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce. Demography, 33, 415–420.
51. Zill, N., Morrison, D. R., & Coiro, M. J. (1993). Long-term effects of parental divorce on parent-child relationships, adjustment, and achievement in young adulthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 91–103.