The legacy of parents' marital discord: Consequences for children's marital quality.
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Drawing on a national longitudinal study of 297 parents and their married offspring, the authors found that parents' marital discord was negatively related to offspring's marital harmony and positively related to offspring's marital discord. The transmission of marital quality was not mediated by parental divorce, life-course variables, socioeconomic attainment, retrospective measures of parent-child relationships, or psychological distress. Offspring's recollections of parental discord, however, mediated about half of the association between parents' reports of marital discord and offspring's reports of discord in their own marriages. Parental behaviors most likely to predict problematic marriages among offspring included jealousy, being domineering, getting angry easily, being critical, being moody, and not talking to the spouse.
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Interparental conflict significantly predicts later distress and conflict in offspring's marital relationships.
“Interparental conflict is a significant predictor of subsequent distress and conflict in offspring’s marital relationships (Amato & Booth, 2001; Conger, Cui, Bryant, & Elder, 2000).”
From Interparental Conflict and Adolescents’ Romantic Relationship Conflict (2010) · cites this paper as Amato & Booth, 2001
Adolescents may be the most accurate reporters of their conflict exposure, as several studies indicate their reports of interparental conflict are better concurrent and prospective predictors of adjustment than parent or researcher ratings.
“Yet it is also possible that adolescents are the most accurate reporters of their conflict exposure, as several studies indicate that their reports of interparental conflict are better concurrent and prospective predictors of adjustment than either parent or researcher ratings (Amato & Booth, 2001; Cummings, Davies, & Simpson, 1994; Emery & O’Leary, 1982; Grych & Fincham, 1990).”
From Interparental Conflict and Adolescents’ Romantic Relationship Conflict (2010) · cites this paper as Amato & Booth, 2001
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- Authors
- Amato, P. R., & Booth, A.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2001-10
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 627-638
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2059398058
- Cited by
- 328
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 6.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ag004146-12, 5p30hd028263-08)
- National Institute on Aging (R01 AG04146)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1-HD 28263)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- intergenerational transmission, marital harmony, marital conflict, parent-child relationship, jealousy, marital communication
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Conflict, Psychological, Family Relations, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Marriage, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Random Allocation, Socioeconomic Factors
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