Interparental Conflict and Late Adolescents' Sensitization to Conflict: The Moderating Effects of Emotional Functioning and Gender

David, Kevin M.; Murphy, Bridget C.

doi:10.1023/b:joyo.0000025318.26238.40

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“…Interparental conflict is known to have a negative influence on adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems (David & Murphy, 2004; Doyle & Markiewicz, 2005), especially conflict between mother and non-residential father (Dunn, O’Connor, & Cheng, 2005). However, research is inconsistent concerning the effects of non-residential father involvement when interparental conflict is high.…”

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confidence: 99%

Non-Residential Father–Child Involvement, Interparental Conflict and Mental Health of Children Following Divorce: A Person-Focused Approach

Elam

Sandler

Wolchik

et al. 2015

J Youth Adolescence

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Variable-centered research has found complex relationships between child well-being and two critical aspects of the post-divorce family environment: the level of non-residential father involvement (i.e., contact and supportive relationship) with their children and the level of conflict between the father and mother. However, these analyses fail to capture individual differences based on distinct patterns of interparental conflict, father support and father contact. Using a person-centered latent profile analysis, the present study examined (1) profiles of non-residential father contact, support, and interparental conflict in the two years following divorce (N = 240), when children (49% female) were between 9 and 12 years of age and (2) differences across profiles in concurrent child adjustment outcomes as well as outcomes six years later. Four profiles of father involvement were identified: High Contact – Moderate Conflict – Moderate Support, Low Contact – Moderate Conflict – Low Support, High Conflict – Moderate Contact –Moderate Support, and Low Conflict – Moderate Contact – Moderate Support. Concurrently, children with fathers in the group with high conflict were found to have significantly greater internalizing and externalizing problems compared to all other groups. Six years later, children with fathers in the group with low contact and low support were found to have greater internalizing and externalizing problems compared to children with fathers in the high conflict group, and also greater internalizing problems compared to children with fathers in the low conflict group. These results provide insight into the complex relationship among non-residential fathers’ conflict, contact, and support in child adjustment within divorcing families.

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confidence: 99%

Non-Residential Father–Child Involvement, Interparental Conflict and Mental Health of Children Following Divorce: A Person-Focused Approach

Elam

Sandler

Wolchik

et al. 2015

J Youth Adolescence

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“…These associations were of small effect sizes and were similar for girls and boys, which is in contrast with our expectations. We hypothesized that because of females' higher sensitiv-ity to relationship maintenance and conflict outcomes and consequences, and the males' greater focus on themselves and their own agency (David & Murphy, 2004;Davies & Lindsay, 2001;Davies et al, 1999), adolescent girls would be more reactive on interparental conflict than boys. However, our results show that the perceived threat and the feeling of personal responsibility for conflicts between parents are similarly related to subjective health complaints in girls and boys.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We can hypothesize that another variable could influence this relationship more than gender itself or in conjunction with gender, e.g. emotional functioning (e.g., David & Murphy, 2004). For instance, we can hypothesize that girls with low emotional functioning may be more affected by an interparental conflict than boys with low emotional functioning, but girls and boys with high emotional functioning will not differ.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some authors suggest possible gender differences in self-esteem and perception of family conflict, and consequently, a different impact on various outcomes in adolescents' development (e.g., David & Murphy, 2004;Josephs, Markus, & Tafarodi, 1992). It has been found that females are more aware of and sensitive to interparental conflict consequences than males, whereas males are more focused on themselves and their own agency compared to females in the context of interparental conflicts (David & Murphy, 2004;Davies & Lindsay, 2001;Davies, Myers, Cummings, & Heindel, 1999). Therefore, adolescent girls may be more reactive on interparental conflict than boys because they are more concerned about the maintenance of interpersonal relationships, while being more aware of the impact of conflict on the whole family, including themselves.…”

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Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

Daňsová

Bouša²,

Lacinová³

et al. 2019

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This cross-sectional study aims to 1) investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of subjective health complaints inventory in terms of gender, 2) examine the role of selfesteem, interparental conflict and gender in Czech adolescents' subjective health complaints, and 3) examine a possible moderating effect of gender in these relationships. Czech adolescents (N = 1602, 51% girls) from an epidemiological part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) completed questionnaires at home and a psychological sub-sample of ELSPAC (n = 343, 46% girls) completed questionnaires during individual psychological examinations in the years 2006 and 2007. The subjective health complaints inventory used in this study is a unidimensional and scalar invariant for sex. Girls reported more subjective health symptoms than boys. Self-esteem may play a protective role for the adolescents' subjective health symptoms, especially in boys, whereas self-blame and threat in an interparental conflict may serve as a risk factor similarly for both sexes.

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“…The findings of current study indicate that adolescents with higher inter-parental conflicts have experienced more anxiety to perform social skills and less self efficacy. Due to the multiple social transitions that characterize late adolescence, the influence of inter-parental conflict on emotional and socio-cognitive reactions may be more evident during this life stage (David and Murphy, 2004). Steinberg (1998) found late adolescence to be one of the loneliest periods of the life span, because of the reform of peer relationships and moving to new environments, such as college.…”

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Mediating Effect of Anxiety to Perform Social Skill on The Relationship Between Inter-Parental Conflict and Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy

Parsa¹,

Parsa²,

Ahmadpanah³

et al. 2015

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Despite of importance of self-efficacy in psychological and social well being among adolescent, still numbers of student suffers of low self-efficacy and consequently low academic performance. Therefore, this is important to examine what factors associate with self-efficacy among adolescent. This study aims to determine the relationships between inter-parental conflict, anxiety to perform social skill and self-efficacy among late adolescent students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. This quantitative study used a correlation research design. Participants of this study were 374 female and male collage students aged between 17-19 years old. Participants were identified by probability proportional for size sampling. Selfadministered questionnaire were used to collect data. Instruments consist of General Self-Efficacy Scale, The Children's Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale, Scale for Interpersonal Behaviour. All the instruments were highly reliable. Descriptive, bi-variate and multivariate statistics were used in data analysis. Pearson's correlation analysis showed that perception of inter-parental conflicts and anxiety to perform social skill were negatively related to adolescent's self-efficacy (p<0.05). The result of study also shows that anxiety to

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Interparental Conflict and Late Adolescents' Sensitization to Conflict: The Moderating Effects of Emotional Functioning and Gender

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Non-Residential Father–Child Involvement, Interparental Conflict and Mental Health of Children Following Divorce: A Person-Focused Approach

Non-Residential Father–Child Involvement, Interparental Conflict and Mental Health of Children Following Divorce: A Person-Focused Approach

Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

Mediating Effect of Anxiety to Perform Social Skill on The Relationship Between Inter-Parental Conflict and Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy

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