The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children: Report of the Nationwide NASP Study

Guidubaldi, John; Perry, Joseph D.; Cleminshaw, Helen K.; Mcloughlin, Caven S.

doi:10.1080/02796015.1983.12085046

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“…For instance, family environment in early childhood predicts long-term effects on self-esteem (Orth, 2018) and prosocial behavior (Knafo & Plomin, 2006), whereas positive maternal–infant attachment enhances a child’s development and ability to explore the world from a secure emotional foundation (Flaherty & Sadler, 2011). In addition, there is a great deal of research on the effects of parental divorce on children’s psychological and cognitive functioning (Demo & Acock, 1988; Guidubaldi, Cleminshaw, Perry, & Mcloughlin, 1983; Shulman, Scharf, Lumer, & Maurer, 2001; Teachman & Paasch, 1994; Wallerstein & Lewis, 1998). Most of the findings in developmental psychology have yet to be integrated within a broader evolutionary perspective, but there have been promising connections made in recent years.…”

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Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation

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Perspect Psychol Sci

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What motives do people prioritize in their social lives? Historically, social psychologists, especially those adopting an evolutionary perspective, have devoted a great deal of research attention to sexual attraction and romantic-partner choice (mate seeking). Research on long-term familial bonds (mate retention and kin care) has been less thoroughly connected to relevant comparative and evolutionary work on other species, and in the case of kin care, these bonds have been less well researched. Examining varied sources of data from 27 societies around the world, we found that people generally view familial motives as primary in importance and mate-seeking motives as relatively low in importance. Compared with other groups, college students, single people, and men place relatively higher emphasis on mate seeking, but even those samples rated kin-care motives as more important. Furthermore, motives linked to long-term familial bonds are positively associated with psychological well-being, but mate-seeking motives are associated with anxiety and depression. We address theoretical and empirical reasons why there has been extensive research on mate seeking and why people prioritize goals related to long-term familial bonds over mating goals. Reallocating relatively greater research effort toward long-term familial relationships would likely yield many interesting new findings relevant to everyday people’s highest social priorities.

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“…These economic hardships and their sequelae can lead to behavioral and emotional problems in children. For example, Guidubaldi, Cleminshaw, Perry, and McLoughlin (1983) surveyed children whose parents had and had not divorced and found differences between them on 27 out of 34 outcomes before controlling for income, but only found 13 differences between them after controlling for income, suggesting that income plays an important role but does not account for all of the effect of divorce on children's adjustment. Furthermore, children's adjustment often worsens rather than improves following remarriage and its accompanying increase in economic resources (Hetherington et al, 1989).…”

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Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment

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2009

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In identifying environmental factors affecting chil-dren's development, researchers have typically focused on the quality of children's home or family environments. Less attention has been paid to environmental stability as a factor influencing children's well-being. This is partially due to outdated notions of children's living arrangements and to the fact that children in the least stable environments are often the hardest to involve and retain in research. Recent research suggests that there are associations between the degree of environmental instability and difficulties in adjustment, such that children exposed to higher levels of family instability (e.g., more frequent separations from parent figures and more frequent residential moves) show worse adjustment across a variety of developmental domains. Although there is still uncertainty regarding the causal direction of these associations (does instability cause children's problems or do the problems cause instability?), the sources and consequences of family instability clearly deserve greater attention in future research on child and adolescent adjustment.

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“…The short-term effects of divorce with regard to emotional, social, and academic functioning have been consistently noted. More specifically, research has indicated that in comparison to those living with both parents, children/adolescents of divorced parents frequently exhibit higher levels of aggression (Emery, Hetherington, & DiLalla, 1984;Felner, Ginter, Boike, & Cowen, 1981), problems with peers (Felner et al, 1981;Guidubaldi, Cleminshaw, Perry, & McLaughlin, 1983), and academic difficulties (Guidubaldi et al, 1983;Hetherington, Camera, & Featherman, 1983). In a recent meta-analysis, however, Amato and Keith (1991) found that divorce has small, but significant short term association with childrens' psychosocial adjustment.…”

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Adjustment to Loss among Adolescents

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2001

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The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the adjustment of adolescents who had experienced the death of a parent relative to those who had experienced parental divorce. A 3 (type of loss: parental death, parental divorce, and control) × 3 (age: early, middle, late) × 2 (gender) Multivariate analysis of covariance with socioeconomic status and social desirability as covariates was performed on the subscales of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL). Main effects for type of loss indicated that the parental death and divorce groups, although not differing from each other, scored significantly higher than the control group on the HSCL subscales of Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Depression. In contrast, only the parental death group scored significantly higher on the HSCL Interpersonal Sensitivity subscale which measures uneasiness and negative expectations regarding personal communications as well as interpersonal inadequacy and inferiority. These results indicate that parental death and divorce losses impair the intrapersonal adjustment of adolescents. In addition, findings suggest that parental death is unique in that it disturbs perceptions of interpersonal relationships, a fact which may result in isolation and rob adolescents of needed support at a time when relationships with others (e.g., peers, parents, teachers) are critical to adjustment, well-being, and identity development.The continued salience of childhood loss experiences such as parental death and divorce is clearly indicated by the ongoing interest in such losses with regard to possible relationships to adult psychopathology (Amato

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The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children: Report of the Nationwide NASP Study

Cited by 144 publications

References 36 publications

Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation

Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation

Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment

Adjustment to Loss among Adolescents

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