The Relationship Between Psychological Functioning in a College Sample and Retrospective Reports of Parental Loyalty Conflicts and Psychological Maltreatment

Wozencraft, Theresa A.; Tauzin, Monica; Romero, Lori

doi:10.1080/10502556.2018.1488113

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“…From research among children and adolescents who are confronted with the divorce of their parents, it is known that especially loyalty conflicts and role reversal are associated with the development of mental health problems such as depression or an anxiety disorder (Baker & Brassard, ; Wozencraft, Tauzin, & Romero, ). It is also known that role reversal can provide mental health problems in a later stage as found in a study among young adults growing up with their mothers who were diagnosed with a mental illness (Abraham & Stein, ).…”

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Experiences of Dutch students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness: A qualitative study

Werf

Paans

Emmens

et al. 2019

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Students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness often delay or drop out of school when the combination of family care and their educational programme is too demanding. This study aims to describe the themes experienced by students growing up in this situation. A qualitative focus group design was used. The recruitment for this study was done through an online survey where students could indicate whether they also wanted to participate in a focus group. Twenty‐five Dutch students (age 18–25 years) who grew up with a family member with a chronic illness participated in one of the total of seven focus groups. A qualitative inductive analysis was used to identify codes and main themes. Students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness experience responsibility issues, loyalty conflicts, peer alienation, role reversal, negative influence on personal development, daily worries and confronting situations. They reported substantial impact in terms of their general well‐being, their family relationships and in their choices for their future. Students articulated that growing up in this situation has a serious and substantial impact on their lives. Further research is required in order to gain comprehensive insights into the requests of these students regarding personal and family support.

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Experiences of Dutch students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness: A qualitative study

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Paans

Emmens

et al. 2019

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“…The term applies “when the focus of clinical attention is the negative effects of parental relationship discord (for example, high levels of conflict, distress, or disparagement on a child in the family)” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 716). The CAPRD term encapsulates the involvement of the children in multiple forms of parental conflict that range in severity from mild to abusive and violent, and this conflict has been linked to internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children (Brock & Kochanska, 2016; Koss et al, 2013; Wozencraft et al, 2019). When parents draw children into their disputes, children may experience an internal loyalty conflict (Hetherington, 1999), or they may form a coalition with one parent against the other (known as the rejected or alienated parent; Bernet et al, 2016).…”

Section: Interparental Conflict and Children’s Psychological Developmentmentioning

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Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation.

Harman¹,

Warshak²,

Lorandos³

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Developmental Psychology

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Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive literature review tests competing descriptions of the PA literature. Accessing four electronic databases, we identified 213 documents with empirical data on PA published in 10 languages through December 2020. The results confirmed that the current state of PA scholarship meets three criteria of a maturing field of scientific inquiry: an expanding literature, a shift toward quantitative studies, and a growing body of research that tests theory-generated hypotheses. Nearly 40% of the PA literature has been published since 2016, establishing that PA research has moved beyond an early stage of scientific development and has produced a scientifically trustworthy knowledge base. This literature review documents the value of multiple research methodologies to this knowledge base. In addition, the growing body of research described in this review enhances our understanding of the association between interparental conflict and the breakdown of parent-child relationships in families where conflict differentially affects children's relationship with and behavior toward each parent.

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“…In accordance with these arguments, previous empirical studies have found that children's experiences of parental loyalty conflicts were related to symptoms of depression (Baker & Brassard, 2013), higher levels of anxiety and deviant behaviour, poorer adjustment to family dissolution (Buchanan et al, 1991), and increased feelings of insecurity towards their parents (Walper et al, 2005). Other studies that concentrated on young adults showed significant associations between feelings of being caught between the parents and lower levels of subjective well-being and poorer quality of parent-child relationships (Amato & Afifi, 2006), as well as symptoms of depression and anxiety (Verrocchio et al, 2016;Wozencraft et al, 2019). Based on these findings, the second hypothesis is that high parental loyalty conflict levels are related to lower levels of mental health in children in post-separation families (H 2 ).…”

Section: Parental Loyalty Conflicts and Child Well-beingmentioning

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“…One explanation for these findings is that children in post‐separation families experience parental loyalty conflicts (Amato & Afifi, 2006; Buchanan et al, 1991). Following a broad definition, parental loyalty conflicts occur when at least ‘one parent (is) interfering with the child(ren)'s perception of, relationship with, or access to the other parent’ (Wozencraft et al, 2019, p. 104). The ways in which parents may actively draw their children into loyalty conflicts include making negative comments about the other parent, trying to turn the child against the other parent, asking the child to keep secrets, limiting the contact with the other parent and making the child choose between the two parents (Verrocchio & Baker, 2015).…”

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The association between joint physical custody and children’s mental health. Do children’s experiences of parental loyalty conflicts moderate the relationship?

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2021

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The Relationship Between Psychological Functioning in a College Sample and Retrospective Reports of Parental Loyalty Conflicts and Psychological Maltreatment

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Experiences of Dutch students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness: A qualitative study

Experiences of Dutch students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness: A qualitative study

Developmental psychology and the scientific status of parental alienation.

The association between joint physical custody and children’s mental health. Do children’s experiences of parental loyalty conflicts moderate the relationship?

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