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Peer reviewedJekielek, Susan M. – Social Forces, 1998
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on 1,640 children aged 6-14 indicate that children's anxiety and depression/withdrawal were increased by prior parental marital conflict or disruption. Children remaining in high-conflict environments generally exhibited lower levels of well-being than children with high-conflict experience whose parents…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Divorce, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedAmato, Paul R.; Booth, Alan – Social Forces, 1991
Among 1,243 adults nationwide, individuals who experienced parental divorce as children scored lower than those from happily intact families of origin on measures of psychological, social, and marital well-being. Multiple parental divorces and divorces involving deterioration of parent-child relations appeared particularly problematic. Contains 39…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Divorce, Family Influence, Marital Instability
Peer reviewedAmato, Paul R.; And Others – Social Forces, 1995
For 471 adult children of persons in a longitudinal study of marital instability, the long-term consequences of parental divorce depended upon level of parental conflict prior to separation. Adult offspring who had experienced high levels of parental conflict followed by divorce had levels of psychological and marital well-being as high as…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Divorce, Family Violence, Friendship
