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After the Marriage Is Over: Mothers' Separation Distress and Children's Postdivorce Adjustment
Jacqueline S DeAnda1, Michael R Langlais2, Edward R Anderson1
1University of Texas at Austin.
Family Relations
|December 23, 2024
Summary
Mothers' postdivorce distress directly impacts children's behavior. Co-parenting conflict partially explains this link, highlighting the need for support for divorcing mothers and their children.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Family Studies
- Child Development
Background:
- Parental separation distress is a known factor in adult adjustment.
- Interdependence between parental and child postdivorce adjustment suggests parental distress impacts children.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine the direct and indirect effects of residential mothers' postdivorce separation distress on children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
Main Methods:
- Longitudinal, multimethod, multiinformant data from 319 mother-child dyads.
- Families recruited from court records within 120 days of divorce filing.
- Hierarchical linear modeling, path analysis, and mediation models were employed.
Main Results:
- Mothers' separation distress was significantly linked to increased child internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
- Co-parenting conflict mediated the association between maternal distress and child internalizing behaviors.
- Ineffective parenting did not mediate these links.
Conclusions:
- Residential mothers' postdivorce separation distress has direct and indirect implications for children's adjustment.
- Interventions addressing maternal distress and co-parenting conflict are crucial for child well-being.
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