A Path Analysis of Factors Predicting Children's Divorce Adjustment
Titel:
A Path Analysis of Factors Predicting Children's Divorce Adjustment
Auteur:
Stolberg, Arnold L. Bush, Joseph P.
Verschenen in:
Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 14 (1985) nr. 1 pagina's 49-54
Jaar:
1985-03-01
Inhoud:
Eighty-two mother-child pairs from divorced homes completed measures assessing life change events, marital hostility, parenting skills, parent adjustment, child behavior adjustment, and children's self-concept. A path model was constructed to describe direct and indirect effects of causally ordered prior variables on positive and negative child outcomes. Path coefficients suggested the operation of both direct and mediated effects of background factors, postdivorce adjustment of the custodial parent, and current child-rearing environments on adaptive and maladaptive child outcome variables. The impact of age on children's postdivorce adjustment was found to be mediated by the number of major life events they reported. One "causal path" was found to be significant for several child outcomes: Mothers with more children reported better postdivorce adjustment in themselves, which in turn predicted better self-reported parental functioning. More effective parenting was positively associated with better social skills, more involvement in prosocial activities, and less internalized psychopathology in children.
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