An Examination of the Developmental Impact of Continuing Destructive Parental Conflict on Young Adult Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Fozard ◽  
Peter Gubi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

This research investigates the impact of destructive parental conflict in continuously married parents, on young adult children. Four trainee or practicing counselors, who had personal experience of growing up in families in which there was continuing destructive parental conflict, were interviewed. The data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings resulted in four superordinate themes: feelings of loss, impact to family structure, trauma associated with the conflict, and impacts to personal and professional development, within which were 12 subordinate themes. Short-term impacts focused on mental health and self-esteem, and loss of security at home. Long-term impacts focused on future relationships, defensiveness, parent–child role-reversal, impacts to career, trauma, and parent–child relationships. The results demonstrate the necessity for support to be made available to children who are exposed to destructive parental conflict in parents who remain married, as well as to the adult children of continuing destructive parental conflict.

scholarly journals When inflammation and depression go together: The longitudinal effects of parent–child relationships

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1969-1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. H. Beach ◽  
Man Kit Lei ◽  
Ronald L. Simons ◽  
Ashley B. Barr ◽  
Leslie G. Simons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Romantic Partner ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Partner Relationships ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

AbstractParent–child relationships have long-term effects on health, particularly later inflammation and depression. We hypothesized that these effects would be mediated by later romantic partner relationships and elevated stressors in young adulthood, helping promote chronic, low grade, inflammation as well as depressive symptoms, and driving their covariation. It has been proposed recently that youth experiencing harsher parenting may also develop a stronger association between inflammation and depressive symptoms in adulthood and altered effects of stressors on outcomes. In the current investigation, we test these ideas using an 18-year longitudinal study ofN= 413 African American youth that provides assessment of the parent–child relationship (at age 10), pro-inflammatory cytokine profile and depressive symptoms (at age 28), and potential mediators in early young adulthood (assessed at ages 21 and 24). As predicted, the effect of harsher parent–child relationships (age 10) on pro-inflammatory state and increased depressive symptoms at age 28 were fully mediated through young adult stress and romantic partner relationships. In addition, beyond these mediated effects, parent–child relationships at age 10 moderated the concurrent association between inflammation and depressive symptoms, as well as the prospective association between romantic partner relationships and inflammation, and resulted in substantially different patterns of indirect effects from young adult mediators to outcomes. The results support theorizing that the association of depression and inflammation in young adulthood is conditional on earlier parenting, and suggest incorporating this perspective into models predicting long-term health outcomes.

What Do They Want From My Life? Parent-Child Relationships as Perceived by Druze Adolescents in Israel

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Randa Abbas ◽  
Sherri P. Pataki ◽  
Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum ◽  
Salman Ilaiyan
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Conflict ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Past ◽  
Supportive Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

This research examined Druze adolescents’ perception of their relationships with parents in Israel. Israeli Druze is a small group accounting for only 2% of Israel’s population. The Druze society is patriarchal; it demands absolute loyalty to the values of religion, family, and clan. Our goal was to explore the impact of increasing intercultural contact with modern Israeli society and the outside world on parent-child relationships in a traditional society that demands absolute loyalty and obedience to elders. The researchers used the phenomenological approach to understand parent-child relationships from the perspective of the adolescents themselves. Twelve Druze adolescents, six females and six males ranging in age from 16 to 18, completed a semi-structured interview in which they were asked to describe their relationships with parents. Participants were prompted to describe a recent conflict, if any, and the way in which the conflict was resolved, as well as a positive and a negative interaction with parents in the past year. Thematic analyses revealed intergenerational conflict related to perceived acculturation gaps. Other consistent themes portrayed supportive parent-child relationships and the adolescents’ commitment to Druze heritage. Overall, findings suggest that although increasing exposure to modern society may lead to intergenerational conflict, Druze adolescents remained grounded in supportive family relationships and their religious heritage.

Long-term effects of sudden bereavement: Marital and parent-child relationships and children's reactions.

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrin R. Lehman ◽  
Eric L. Lang ◽  
Camille B. Wortman ◽  
Susan B. Sorenson
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

New and Strange Sorts of Texts

2016 ◽  
pp. 437-466
Author(s):  
Melanie Kittrell Hundley ◽  
Teri Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Good Exemplar ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
The Impact

Dennis Baron (1999) writes about the impact of digital technology on literacy practices and thus is a good exemplar for considering how communication technologies are changing the ways in which stories are told. In this chapter, we argue that young adult literature authors and readers are currently in what Baron terms an inventive stage as they devise new ways of producing storied texts. Young adult authors, aware of their readers as avid, exploring, and savvy tech users, experiment with text formats to appeal to readers growing up in a digital “participatory culture” (Jenkins, Purushotma, Weigel, Clinton & Robins, 2009). In a cultural climate where the very notion of what constitutes a book is changing, our chapter responds to Baron's (2009) claim that readers and writers are in the process of “[learning] to trust a new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces” (p. x).

New and Strange Sorts of Texts

2018 ◽  
pp. 1460-1491
Author(s):  
Melanie Kittrell Hundley ◽  
Teri Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Good Exemplar ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
The Impact

Dennis Baron (1999) writes about the impact of digital technology on literacy practices and thus is a good exemplar for considering how communication technologies are changing the ways in which stories are told. In this chapter, we argue that young adult literature authors and readers are currently in what Baron terms an inventive stage as they devise new ways of producing storied texts. Young adult authors, aware of their readers as avid, exploring, and savvy tech users, experiment with text formats to appeal to readers growing up in a digital “participatory culture” (Jenkins, Purushotma, Weigel, Clinton & Robins, 2009). In a cultural climate where the very notion of what constitutes a book is changing, our chapter responds to Baron's (2009) claim that readers and writers are in the process of “[learning] to trust a new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces” (p. x).

scholarly journals Long-term effects of divorce on parent-child relationships.

1983 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 703-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Fine ◽  
John R. Moreland ◽  
Andrew I. Schwebel
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

scholarly journals 'If I'm like Them, They Will Accept Me More': How New Zealand Immigrants Negotiate and Perform Gendered Social Identities

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Hamel
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Adjustment Processes ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

The study shows participants' gender identity adjustment processes in different domains such as intimate relationships, parent-child relationships and friendship networks. The findings show that these three domains are grounds in which adult long-term immigrants to New Zealand negotiate and construct new gendered identities.

You are my favourite! Parent–child relationships and satisfaction in later life in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Cecilia Tomassini ◽  
Elisa Cisotto ◽  
Giulia Cavrini
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Intergenerational Transfers ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
High Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Indicators ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract Intergenerational transfers measured in several currencies (e.g. co-residence, contact, proximity and support) have been always considered important indicators for family solidarity. Most of the studies on intergenerational transfers examine the structural characteristics of such exchanges (as distance, frequency, type, motives), emphasising the potential positive association between the structure and the quality of parent–child relationships. Additionally, while most surveys include questions on the structural indicators of family exchanges, it is still uncommon for them to contain assessments of the relationships between parents and their adult children as well. Using the Italian 2009 Family Survey, this study analyses the satisfaction of parent–child relationships for parents aged 65 and older. After examining the association of such a variable with the structural indicators of intergenerational exchanges (frequency of contact), we explored the individual factors associated with satisfaction of relationships with a child using multilevel multinomial models. Overall, older Italian parents report high satisfaction in their relationships with their adult children. Additionally, a not strong, but statistically significant association between structure (contact) and satisfaction was found. This study shows how high satisfaction of relationships with children is positively associated with being a mother and being married and negatively associated with bad health status. Some of the variables considered have different impacts between the sexes of parents. Additionally, a better appreciation of relationships with daughters compared to sons was found, especially for fathers.

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