Interparental Conflict in Stepfather Families and Emerging Adults’ Mental Health and Aggression

References

• Afifi, T. D. (2003). “Feeling caught” in stepfamilies: Managing boundary turbulence through appropriate communication privacy rules. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20(6), 729–755. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407503206002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Afifi, T. D., & Mazur, A. P. (2022). Divorced and single-parent families. In A. L. Vangelisti (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of family communication (pp. 129–142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043423-13
   Google Scholar
• Amato, P., & Afifi, T. (2006). Feeling caught between parents: Adult children’s relations with parents and subjective well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(1), 222–235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00243.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anderson, L. R., Hemez, P. F., & Kreider, R. M. 2022. Living arrangements of children: 2019. U.S. Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2022/demo/p70-174.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Azen, R., & Budescu, D. V. (2003). The dominance analysis approach for comparing predictors in multiple regression. Psychological Methods, 8(2), 129–148. https://doi.org/10.1037/1082-989x.8.2.129
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Azen, R., & Budescu, D. V. (2006). Comparing predictors in multivariate regression models: An extension of dominance analysis. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 31(2), 157–180. https://doi.org/10.3102/10769986031002157
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berg-Cross, L. (2000). Basic concepts in family therapy: An introductory text. Haworth Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bradford, K., & Barber, B. K. (2005). Interparental conflict as intrusive family process. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 5(2–3), 143–167. https://doi.org/10.1300/j135v05n02_07
   Google Scholar
• Bradford, K., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., Maughan, S. L., Erickson, L. D., Ward, D., & Stolz, H. E. (2003). A multi-national study of interparental conflict, parenting, and adolescent functioning. Marriage & Family Review, 35(3–4), 107–137. https://doi.org/10.1300/j002v35n03_07
   Google Scholar
• Bradford, K., Vaughn, L. B., & Barber, B. K. (2008). When there is conflict: Interparental conflict, parent-child conflict, and youth problem behaviors. Journal of Family Issues, 29(6), 780–805. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513x07308043
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buchanan, C. M., & Heiges, K. L. (2001). When conflict continues after the marriage ends: Effects of post-divorce conflict on children. In J. H. Grych & F. D. Ficham (Eds.), Interparental conflict and child development (pp. 337–362). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527838.015
   Google Scholar
• Budescu, D. V. (1993). Dominance analysis: A new approach to the problem of relative importance of predictors in multiple regression. Psychological Bulletin, 114(3), 542–551. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.114.3.542
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buehler, C., Anthony, C., Krishnakumar, A., Stone, G., Gerard, J., & Pemberton, S. (1997). Interparental conflict and youth problem behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 6(2), 233–247. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025006909538
   Google Scholar
• Buehler, C., Krishnakumar, A., Stone, G., Anthony, C., Pemberton, S., Gerard, J., & Barber, B. (1998). Interparental conflict styles and youth problem behaviors: A two-sample replication study. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(1), 119–132. https://doi.org/10.2307/353446
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burton, L., Hafetz, J., & Henninger, D. (2007). Gender differences in relational and physical aggression. Social Behavior and Personality, 35(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2007.35.1.41
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Casler, K., Bickel, L., & Hackett, E. (2013). Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via Amazon’s MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(6), 2156–2160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.05.009
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chmielewski, M., & Kucker, S. C. (2020). An mturk crisis? Shifts in data quality and the impact on study results. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(4), 464–473. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619875149
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen, S., Kamarck, T., & Mermelstein, R. (1983). A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24(4), 386–396. https://doi.org/10.2307/2136404
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coleman, M., Fine, M., Ganong, L., Downs, K., & Pauk, N. (2001). When you’re not the Brady bunch: Identifying perceived conflicts and resolution strategies in stepfamilies. Personal Relationships, 8(1), 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.14756811.2001.tb00028.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davies, P. T., & Cummings, E. M. (1994). Marital conflict and child adjustment: An emotional security hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin, 116(3), 387–411. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.116.3.387
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Derogatis, L. R., Rickels, K., & Rock, A. F. (1976). The SCL-90 and the MMPI: A step in the validation of a New Self-Report Scale. British Journal of Psychiatry, 128(3), 280–289. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.128.3.280
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Donovan, E. E., Thompson, C. M., LeFebvre, L., & Tollison, A. C. (2017). Emerging adult confidants’ judgments of parental openness: Disclosure quality and post-disclosure relational closeness. Communication Monographs, 84(2), 179–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2015.1119867
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dunn, J., O’Connor, T., & Cheng, H. (2005). Children’s responses to conflict between their different parents: Mothers, stepfathers, nonresident fathers, and nonresident stepmothers. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 34(2), 223–234. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp3402_2
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elam, K. K., Sandler, I., Wolchik, S., & Tein, J.-Y. (2015). Non-residential father-child involvement, interparental conflict and mental health of children following divorce: A person-focused approach. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(3), 581–593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0399-5
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ganong, L., & Coleman, M. (2017). Studying stepfamilies: Four eras of family scholarship. Family Process, 57(1), 7–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12307
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Golish, T. D. (2006). Stepfamily communication strengths: Understanding the ties that bind. Human Communication Research, 29(1), 41–80. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/29.1.41
   Google Scholar
• Grych, J. H., Raynor, S. R., & Fosco, G. M. (2004). Family processes that shape the impact of interparental conflict on adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 16(3), 649–665. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579404004717
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hanson, T. L., McLanahan, S. S., & Thomson, E. (1996). Double jeopardy: Parental conflict and stepfamily outcomes for children. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 58(1), 141–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/353383
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hetherington, E. M., & Jodle, K. M. (1994). Stepfamilies as settings for children’s development. In A. Booth & J. Dunn (Eds.), Stepfamilies: Who benefits? Who does not? (pp. 55–79). Lawrence Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Jensen, T. M., & Harris, K. M. (2016). Stepfamily relationship quality and stepchildren’s depression in adolescence and adulthood. Emerging Adulthood, 5(3), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696816669901
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jensen, T. M., & Lippold, M. A. (2018). Patterns of stepfamily relationship quality and adolescents’ short-term and long-term adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 32(8), 1130–1141. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000442
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jensen, T. M., & Sanner, C. (2021). A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 13(4), 463–495. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12437
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jensen, T. M., & Shafer, K. (2013). Stepfamily functioning and closeness: Children’s views on second marriages and stepfather relationships. Social Work, 58(2), 127–136. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swt007
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnson, J. W. (2000). A heuristic method for estimating the relative weight of predictor variables in multiple regression. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 35(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327906mbr3501_1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johnson, J. G., Harris, E. S., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. W. (2002). The patient health questionnaire for adolescents: Validation of an instrument for the assessment of mental disorders among adolescent primary care patients. Journal of Adolescent Health, 30(3), 196–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1054-139X(01)00333-0
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• King, V., & Lindstrom, R. (2016). Continuity and change in stepfather-stepchild closeness between adolescence and early adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(3), 730–743. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12281
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Minuchin, S., Rosman, B., & Baker, L. (1978). Psychosomatic families: Anorexia nervosa in context. Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Papernow, P. L. (2018). Clinical guidelines for working with stepfamilies: What family, couple, individual, and child therapists need to know. Family Process, 57(1), 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12321
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Plunkett, S. W., & Henry, C. S. (1999). Adolescent perceptions of interparental conflict, stressors, and coping as predictors of adolescent family life satisfaction. Sociological Inquiry, 69(4), 599–620. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682x.1999.tb00888.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Plunkett, S. W., Hinojosa, G. A., Reyes, O. A., & Katz, G. S. (2023). The relative importance of internal cognitive processes in explaining depressive symptoms in university students. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy1–17. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/87568225.2023.2198153
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ran, G., Niu, X., Zhang, Q., Li, S., Liu, J., Chen, X., & Wu, J. (2021). The association between interparental conflict and youth anxiety: A three-level meta-analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(4), 599–612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01388-7
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saint-Jacques, M.-C., Godbout, É., Drapeau, S., Kourgiantakis, T., & Parent, C. (2018). Researching children’s adjustment in stepfamilies: How is it studied? What do we learn? Child Indicators Research, 11(6), 1831–1865. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-017-9510-7
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schrodt, P. (2016). Coparental communication with nonresidential parents as a predictor of children’s feelings of being caught in stepfamilies. Communication Reports, 29(2), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2015.1020562
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schrodt, P., & LaFreniere, J. R. (2022). Witnessing interparental conflict, feeling caught, and mental health: A conditional process analysis involving parental confirmation and divorce status. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(2), 303–324. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211036508
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Spitzer, R. L., Kroenke, K., Williams, J. W., & Löwe, B. (2006). A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: The GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine, 166(10), 1092–1097. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.166.10.1092
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stadler, M., Cooper-Thomas, H. D., & Greiff, S. (2017). A primer on relative importance analysis: Illustrations of its utility for psychological research. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 59(4), 381–403.
   Google Scholar
• Stutzman, S. V., Bean, R. A., Miller, R. B., Day, R. D., Feinauer, L. L., Porter, C. L., & Moore, A. (2011). Marital conflict and adolescent outcomes: A cross-ethnic group comparison of latino and European American youth. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(5), 663–668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.11.009
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tonidandel, S., & LeBreton, J. M. (2011). Relative importance analysis: A useful supplement to regression analysis. Journal of Business and Psychology, 26(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-010-9204-3
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tonidandel, S., & LeBreton, J. M. (2015). RWA web: A free, comprehensive, web-based, and user-friendly tool for relative weight analyses. Journal of Business and Psychology, 30(2), 207–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-014-9351-z
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Eldik, W. M., de Haan, A. D., Parry, L. Q., Davies, P. T., Luijk, M. P. C. M., Arends, L. R., & Prinzie, P. (2020). The interparental relationship: Meta-analytic associations with children’s maladjustment and responses to interparental conflict. Psychological Bulletin, 146(7), 553–594. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000233
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar