Reasons for Separation and Divorce, Coparenting, and Child Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties: A Common Fate Analysis

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of marital and family therapy Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI:10.1111/jmft.70034

Michael Fitzgerald, Adam Galovan, Viktoria Papp, Matt Brosi, Ron Cox

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Abstract

Despite reasons for separation and divorce being critical to understanding coparenting and children's adjustment, they are often overlooked risk factors. Additionally, by incorporating both partners' perspectives, dyadic data help us fully understand the interplay between reasons for separation/divorce, coparenting, and child adjustment. Using data from 926 separating or divorcing heterosexual couples in a coparenting educational program, we explore the indirect effects from partners' shared perceptions of two common reasons for divorce (family violence and parenting differences) to children's behavioral and emotional problems via coparenting, utilizing the common fate mediation model. Results indicated that the indirect effects from shared perceptions of both family violence and parenting differences as reasons for divorce on both children's behavioral and emotional problems were significant. Extra-dyadic analyses indicate that women's unique perceptions of both reasons for divorce were indirectly connected to their perceptions of children's behavioral and emotional problems via their perceptions of coparenting.

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分居和离婚的原因，父母抚养，以及儿童行为和情感困难：一个共同的命运分析

尽管分居和离婚的原因对理解父母养育和孩子的适应至关重要，但它们往往被忽视的风险因素。此外，通过结合双方的观点，二元数据帮助我们充分理解分居/离婚原因、共同养育和孩子适应之间的相互作用。本文利用926对分居或离婚的异性恋夫妻的数据，利用共同命运中介模型，探讨了夫妻双方对两种常见离婚原因（家庭暴力和养育方式差异）的共同认知，对通过共同养育子女的行为和情感问题的间接影响。结果表明，家庭暴力和父母教养差异对儿童行为和情感问题的间接影响都是显著的。额外的二元分析表明，女性对离婚两种原因的独特看法，通过她们对养育子女的看法，间接地与她们对子女行为和情感问题的看法有关。

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Journal of marital and family therapy Multiple-

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4.10

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Marital & Family Therapy (JMFT) is published quarterly by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is one of the best known and most influential family therapy journals in the world. JMFT is a peer-reviewed journal that advances the professional understanding of marital and family functioning and the most effective psychotherapeutic treatment of couple and family distress. Toward that end, the Journal publishes articles on research, theory, clinical practice, and training in marital and family therapy.