“…Clear relationships have been shown between a broad range of stressors and adjustment in children, both generally (Honig, 1986a, 1986b, Johnson, 1986Kornberg & Caplan, 1980) and for specific stressful events such as divorce (e.g., Guidubaldi, Cleminshaw, Perry, & Mcloughlin, 1983;Wallerstein, 1983), death of a parent (e.g., Anthony & Koupernik, 1974;Osterweis, Solomon, & Green, 1984), and illness and hospitalization (Drotar, Crawford, & Ganofsky, 1984;Peterson & Brownlee-Duffeck, 1984). Some of these adverse effects stem less from the specific event itself (e.g., divorce) than from chronic conflictual processes associated with it (Block, Block & Gjerde, 1986;Emery, 1986;Felner, 1984).…”