The relation of parental marital status and perceived family conflict to adjustment in White adolescents.

Abstract

Recent reviews and investigations have failed to support the physical-wholeness position.

Divorce related malicious mother syndrome

“…While the malicious actions may first be noted during a divorce process, it is possible that maliciousness may have been present earlier but undetected. Research on pre-divorce parental conflict (Enos and Handal, 1986) supports this speculation. Relatedly, it may also be that there are some cases of pre-existing mental disorder that have not been discovered until the stress of the divorce itself unfolds.…”

Correspondence between maternal and paternal parenting styles in early childhood

“…Yang et al (2004), using items from a modified Chinese version of the PSDQ, found that spousal report of parenting practices was at times more associated with child outcomes in predicted ways than was parental self-report. Indeed, differences in parental perceptions of parenting practices occurring in the home are important topics for future research given that investigators have often found perceived conflict to be a more important variable for predicting family and child outcomes than the amount of actual conflict or disagreements found in the home (Cohen & Rice, 1997;Enos & Handal, 1986).…”

The Development of Display Rule Knowledge: Linkages with Family Expressiveness and Social Competence

“…Furthermore, expressive family contexts with heightened sadness (negative-submissive) were also shown in Study 1 to detract from an orientation toward the other as evidenced in lower prosocial display rules. These variations in display rule goal structures may help to understand further the established relation between child maladjustment and family and marital conflict (Davies & Cummings, 1994;Enos & Handal, goals were included in the predictors. It was only the integrated display rule knowledge variables (expression regulation + type of goals) that were significantly related to the social competence measures.…”