The implications of high-conflict divorce on adult–children: Five factors related to well-being

Radetzki, Phillip; Deleurme, Kendall; Rogers, Sean

doi:10.1080/13229400.2020.1754277

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“…Due to the parent's lack of communication, which can affect the child adversely, it is important that the school and the divorce group leader make sure that both parents get the information needed. Several studies have given attention to the importance of the child including a trusted adult in their protected network to turn to for support [34][35][36]. By involving the parents and keeping up the confidentiality for the child, divorce groups may bridge the gap between the child and their divorced parents and help them to understand their challenges and find resources to manage them.…”

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Parents' experiences of their child's participation in divorce groups in Norway: A phenomenological study

Ulvøy

Persson

Hallström

et al. 2023

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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BackgroundChildren and youth who experience divorce are found to have increased risk of emotional and behavioural adjustment problems. Different prevention programmes have been developed to help and support children. Previous studies have focused on the child or the group leader's experience with divorce groups, but studies describing parent's experience are missing. The aim of this study was to explore parents' experiences of their child's participation in divorce groups.MethodsAn inductive, qualitative and descriptive design was applied with philosophical orientation in naturalistic inquiry based on the outlines of a phenomenological perspective. Two fathers and three mothers from two different counties in Norway participated whereof four of them were interviewed twice. Systematic text condensation was used for the analysis.ResultsThree themes emerged from the analysis: encouraging the child, missing communication and challenging situations. Parents described how they encouraged the child to attend divorce groups and hoped they would gain a deeper understanding of their parents' divorce and their own feelings. Missing communication relates to lack of information about the groups from the school, the group leader and from the child. Missing information was found to be a challenge for the parents and made them think that the divorce group was beneficial for the child but maybe not always for the family. Parents described challenging situations due to the divorce, and they struggled to understand their child and their own behaviour.ConclusionsThe opportunity for the child to talk to other children in the same situation in divorce groups was positive for the parents. To be beneficial for both children and their parents, structured information and cooperation among the school, the child and both parents are important. The knowledge from this study can support the development and use of intervention programmes in the future.

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Parents' experiences of their child's participation in divorce groups in Norway: A phenomenological study

Ulvøy

Persson

Hallström

et al. 2023

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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“…According to the literature review, few studies provide an explanatory finding between parents' marital status and emotion regulation. In a correlational study 26 conducted with this hypothesis, adult children's perceptions of interparental conflict (PIC) during divorce were associated with susceptibility to irrational beliefs, materialistic orientations, and emotion dysregulation. They found that the most prominent effect size was between PIC and emotional dysregulation.…”

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The correlation between emotion regulation and attachment styles in undergraduates

Özeren

2021

Perspect Psychiatric Care

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Purpose This study defines the emotion regulation difficulties experienced by undergraduate students and their attachment styles and determines the relationship between them. Design and Methods In this study, 586 undergraduates participated by filling in the difficulties in the emotion regulation scale and the relationship styles questionnaire. We used a descriptive correlational study design to analyze these data. Findings Difficulties in emotion regulation were negatively correlated with secure attachment and positively correlated with insecure attachment. Practice Implications Psychiatric nurse educators can organize emotion regulation groups and create a module that teaches attachment styles and their correlation, available to students from all departments.

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“…For example, reduced contact with the partner may be seen as a great relief if the relationship had turned rather sour. On the other hand, earlier fighting grounds may be substituted by new conflicts about redistribution of property or child arrangements (Kalmijn 2016; Radetzki, Deleurme, and Rogers 2022), there may be a severe economic setback (which for the partner who earns least or has the main responsibility for the children may go beyond the lost economy‐of‐scale advantage), and there may be distress because of changes in the relationships with friends and family members, or because of migration to another area (Kalmijn and van Groenou 2005). From the child's perspective, less contact with at least one of the parents may be an additional problem (although the child may have got less attention already before the breakup, while the parental relationship became increasingly troubled).…”

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Mental and Physical Health Trajectories of Norwegian Parents and Children before and after Union Dissolution

Kravdal¹,

Wörn²

2023

Population & Development Rev

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The aim was to examine the mental and physical health trajectories of mothers, fathers, and children before and after union dissolution. Register data covering the entire Norwegian population, and including information on consultations with general practitioners in 2006–2018, were used. Constant unobserved characteristics were controlled for with individual fixed effects. As judged by the number of consultations, mothers’ and fathers’ mental health deteriorates before the dissolution but improves immediately afterwards. In contrast, a worsening mental health among children before the dissolution is followed by an even more adverse development afterwards. There is only modest evidence of predissolution increases in noninfectious physical diseases, but more clearly rising numbers afterwards especially for mothers and daughters. Less adverse trends are seen for infections, although mothers experience a sharp temporary increase at the breakup time. On the whole, mothers’ health is more adversely affected by dissolution than that of fathers. Daughters may have a disadvantage compared to sons, but results vary across model specifications. The results suggest that effects on children's health do not operate through parents’ health. With respect to union type, the health changes before and after dissolution of a consensual union are not very different from those before and after marital separation.

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The implications of high-conflict divorce on adult–children: Five factors related to well-being

Cited by 9 publications

References 92 publications

Parents' experiences of their child's participation in divorce groups in Norway: A phenomenological study

Parents' experiences of their child's participation in divorce groups in Norway: A phenomenological study

The correlation between emotion regulation and attachment styles in undergraduates

Mental and Physical Health Trajectories of Norwegian Parents and Children before and after Union Dissolution

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