ArticleChild development2021
Longitudinal Effects of PostDivorce Interparental Conflict on Children's Mental Health Problems Through Fear of Abandonment: Does Parenting Quality Play a Buffering Role?
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Constructive Interparental Conflict and Children's Outcomes: A Systematic Research Synthesis.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Pooled it
- Preventing Adverse Outcomes for Bereaved Youth: Indirect Effects From a Randomized Trial of the Family Bereavement Program on Fear of Abandonment, Grief, and Mental Health.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2024Trial
- A randomized controlled trial to improve fathering among fathers with substance use disorders: Fathering in recovery intervention.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Trial
- Child Maltreatment and the Mediating Effects of Bullying Victimization on School Engagement Among South Korean Youth in Orphanages and a National Sample.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The associations between interparental conflict and adolescent adjustment: a cross-lagged panel network analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Interparental conflict and adolescent emotional security across family structures.Family process · 2024Article
- The Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model: The Shaping Role of Predivorce and Postdivorce Interparental Conflict.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- The reciprocal relationships between Chinese children's perception of interparental conflict, negative thinking, and depression symptoms: A cross-lagged study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Human-centered design methods to achieve preparation phase goals in the multiphase optimization strategy framework.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Abstract
In a sample of 559 children (ages 9-18), researchers investigated whether: (a) fear of abandonment mediated the association between postdivorce interparental conflict (IPC) and mental health problems, and (b) parent-child relationship quality moderated the association between IPC and fear of abandonment. Mediation analyses indicated that pretest IPC predicted fear of abandonment 3 months later, which then predicted child- and teacher-reported mental health problems 10 months later. The hypothesized protective effect of a high-quality parent-child relationship was not observed. IPC predicted fear of abandonment for all children, except for those with low- and moderate-quality father-child relationships, for whom IPC was not significantly related to fear of abandonment. Findings highlight the need to optimize child coping programs and improve parenting-after-divorce programs to reduce IPC.
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