Marital Status, Marital Process, and Parental Resources in Predicting Adolescents’ Emotional Adjustment : A Multilevel Analysis  

Oleh:

Vandervalk, Inge ; Spruijt, Ed ; Meeus, Wim ; Maas, Cora ; Goede, Martijn De

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Family Issues vol. 25 no. 3 (Apr. 2004), page 291-317.
Topik: multilevel; adolescent; adjustment; divorce; marital quality; family systems
Fulltext: 291.pdf (170.65KB)

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This study examined the relationship between adolescent emotional adjustment and the family environment (i. e., family status, family process, and parental resources). This was done by way of multilevel analyses, with a sample of 2,636 parent - child couples of both intact and divorced families. The results indicated that adolescent emotional adjustment was clearly based on the family as well as on the individual. We found support for the hypothesis that growing up both in postdivorce families and in intact families with a low marital quality related negatively to adolescent emotional adjustment. Our hypothesis that parental resources, in the form of parental support, parent - adolescent relationship, and parental psychological health, partly mediate the negative association between low marital quality and divorce on one hand and youngsters’ adjustment on the other hand was also confirmed. Growing up in postdivorce families was especially detrimental for the emotional adjustment of girls.

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