Parental Conflict, Marital Disruption and Children's Emotional Well-Being

Social Forces ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Jekielek
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Parental Conflict

scholarly journals Marital Disruption, Remarriage and Child Well-being in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 978-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Structural Instability ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Extent Of Damage ◽  
Analyze Data

Family changes in China are characterized by a dual rise in marital disruption and remarriage. However, the implications of these changes for child well-being remain understudied. I analyze data from the 2015 China Education Panel Survey to profile and explain well-being disparities between children in intact, disrupted, and remarried families. Child well-being is poorer in disrupted than in intact families. Remarriage, particularly of both parents, is associated with further harm to children’s well-being. Mothers’ remarriage is associated with a broader range and greater extent of damage to children’s well-being than that of fathers. Neither social selection nor economic and non-pecuniary resources explain poorer child well-being in disrupted families and stepfamilies than in intact families. Household structure only explains why children in disrupted families, but not in stepfamilies, fare less well than those in intact families. Variations in child well-being with parents’ marital status are consistently explained by poor parent–child relations and parental conflict. Reflecting on the theories of selectivity, resource deprivation, and structural instability, the findings highlight the need to consider China’s distinctive sociocultural and institutional settings in configuring the implications of ongoing family changes for child well-being.

scholarly journals Marital disruption and economic well-being: a comparative analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 170 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnstein Aassve ◽  
Gianni Betti ◽  
Stefano Mazzuco ◽  
Letizia Mencarini
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Economic Well Being

scholarly journals Parental Conflict and Role of Child Protection & Welfare Bureau on Children’s Life

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Hira Azhar Rajpoot ◽  
Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Parental Relationships ◽  
Social Betterment ◽  
Basic Need ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The study is based on parental conflict and the role of the Child Protection & Welfare Bureau (CP&WB) on children’s life. Parental disharmony and friction can have a devastating effect on children and their mental growth. Besides posing a serious impediment to their change as they grow, the parental difference may lead to damaging lifelong effects on the children’s well-being. Kids may feel anxiety, depression, shame,or other similar issues when parental relationships result in impaired parenting practices arising out of conflict. The research was conducted at CP&WB in Bahawalpur. The study aimed to investigate the role of the Bureau for the betterment of the children. The methodology of the research was explanatory and the methods used for the research were interviews and observation. It was found that the bureau generally provided love, care, and met the basic need of the children for their social betterment and mental growth.

Marital Disruption and Psychological Well-Being

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM J. DOHERTY ◽  
SUSAN SU ◽  
RICHARD NEEDLE
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Psychological

This study offers prospective data on the psychological well-being of men and women before and after a marital separation, in comparison with a control group who remained married during the same period. Data were gathered as part of the Minnesota Family Health Study on a primarily middle-class White sample. Primary variables were current psychological well-being, self-esteem, mastery, substance use, and family income. Findings were quite different for men and women. Prior to separation, men in the disrupted group had lower psychological well-being scores than the continuously married group had, but showed no declines in any of the measures in the follow-up period. Separated women scored lower than did women from continuing marriages on psychological well-being prior to the separation, and they declined further afterwards. Separated women also increased their use of alcohol and other substances, and experienced a decline in family income. Findings are discussed in terms of the social causation hypothesis and the social selection hypothesis for understanding the relationship between divorce and mental health in adults.

Sources of Marital Dissatisfaction Among Newly Separated Persons

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNARD L. BLOOM ◽  
ROBERT L. NILES ◽  
ANNA M. TATCHER
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Marital Separation ◽  
Parent Status ◽  
Attitude Factor ◽  
Marital Dissatisfaction

Reported sources of marital dissatisfaction were examined in a sample of 153 newly separated persons, virtually all of whom subsequently divorced. Respondents were asked about their own marital dissatisfactions and about the dissatisfactions of their spouses in 18 different categories of behavior and attitude. Factor analysis of the responses yielded a highly coherent set of marital dissatisfaction source clusters that were relatively independent of each other. A number of these clusters were based upon similar expressions of marital dissatisfaction attributed to both respondent and spouse. Analysis of demographic and mental health characteristics revealed that many of these cluster scores were significantly associated with age, length of marriage, parent status, and with the respondent's role in the initiation of the marital separation. In addition, several marital dissatisfaction source cluster scores were significantly related to measures of psychological well-being and adaptation to the early marital disruption process.

Culture, Parental Conflict, Parental Marital Status, and the Subjective Well-Being of Young Adults

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol L. Gohm ◽  
Shigehiro Oishi ◽  
Janet Darlington ◽  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Parental Marital Status
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