Caught Between Parents: Adolescents' Experience in Divorced Homes

IF 3.9 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Child development Pub Date : 1991-10-01 DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01586.x

Christy M. Buchanan, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Sanford M. Dornbusch

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Abstract

This study examined adolescents' feelings of being caught between parents to see whether this construct helps to explain (1) variability in their postdivorce adjustment and (2) associations between family/child characteristics and adolescent adjustment. Adolescents 10 to 18 years old (N= 522) were interviewed by telephone 4 1/2 years after their parents' separation. Feeling caught between parents was related to high parental conflict and hostility and low parental cooperation. Being close to both parents was associated with low feelings of being caught. The relation between time spent with each parent and feeling caught depended on the coparenting relationship. Adolescents in dual residence were especially likely to feel caught when parents were in high conflict, and especially unlikely to feel caught when parents cooperated. Feeling caught was related to poor adjustment outcomes. Parental conflict was only related to adjustment outcomes indirectly, through adolescents' feelings of being caught.

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夹在父母之间:青少年在离婚家庭中的经历

本研究考察了青少年被夹在父母之间的感觉，看看这个结构是否有助于解释(1)他们离婚后适应的变异性和(2)家庭/孩子特征与青少年适应之间的联系。在父母离异4年半后，对10 ~ 18岁的青少年(N= 522)进行电话访谈。父母之间的羁绊感与高度的父母冲突和敌意以及低的父母合作有关。与父母双方关系密切的人被抓住的感觉较低。与父母双方相处的时间和被抓住的感觉之间的关系取决于亲子关系。双重居住的青少年在父母高度冲突的情况下特别容易感到被抓住，而在父母合作的情况下特别不容易感到被抓住。感觉被抓住与糟糕的调整结果有关。父母冲突仅通过青少年被抓住的感觉间接与调整结果相关。

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Child development Multiple-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

149

期刊介绍： As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers. In addition to six issues per year of Child Development, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription to Child Development Perspectives and Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.