The Divided World of the Child: Divorce and Long‐term Psychosocial Adjustment

Abstract

This study evaluated the extent to which divorce creates the "divided world of the child," as well as consequences of this "divided world" for long-term adjustment. An ethnically diverse sample of 1,375 young-adult university students completed retrospective measures of parental nurturance and involvement, and current measures of psychosocial adjustment and troubled ruminations about parents. Results indicated that reports of maternal and paternal nurturance and involvement were closely related in intact families but uncorrelated in divorced families. Across family forms, the total amount of nurturance or involvement received was positively associated with self-esteem, purpose in life, life satisfaction, friendship quality and satisfaction, and academic performance; and negatively related to distress, romantic relationship problems, and troubled ruminations about parents. Mother-father differences in nurturance and involvement showed a largely opposite set of relationships. Implications for family court practices are discussed.f cre_1326 516..527

The Relationship Between Adolescents’ Perceived Parental Involvement, Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and Subjective Well-Being: A Multiple Mediator Model

“…These variables have been shown to influence parental involvement and/or adolescent SWB in past studies (Finley and Schwartz 2010;Gray et al 2013;Gugl and Welling 2012;Juhari et al 2013;Schwartz and Finley 2009;Updegraff et al 2009;Wilcox 2002;Yaacob et al 2012). Furthermore, these variables have also been used frequently as control variables in research that investigated relationships between parenting behaviors and adolescent developmental outcomes (Baker 2014 …”

Trends in African American and Caribbean Fathers' Nurturance and Involvement

“…The present study extends the important work of Finley and Schwartz by examining the effect of reported involvement on desired father involvement and other indices of psychosocial functioning (Finley & Schwartz, 2004, 2010Schwartz & Finley, 2005). Desired father involvement can be used as a measure of "missed opportunities, and psychological distress" (Finley & Schwartz, 2007).…”

Adaptación del Child-PARQ/Control: versiones para el padre y la madre en población infantil y adolescente española [Adaptation of the Child-PARQ/Control Mother and Father versions in Spanish child and adolescent population]

“…De la misma manera que la percepción de aceptación/rechazo en el child-PARQ, la implicación paterna percibida que evalúa el FIs se relaciona positivamente con el ajuste psicoló-gico de los hijos en aspectos como la autoestima, nivel de satisfacción, relaciones sociales, competencia y rendimiento académico (del Barrio y Roa, 2005;Finley y schwartz, 2006Finley y schwartz, , 2007Finley y schwartz, , 2010 y negativamente, con problemas de comportamiento (Aldous y Mulligan, 2002;Carlson, 2006; Roa y del Barrio, 2001). …”