Parental relationship dissolutions : the influence of parent-child relationship quality and adolescent self-esteem on adolescent wellbeing

dc.contributor.author Green, Mary
dc.date 2019-07-10T02:42:35.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T08:12:24Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T08:12:24Z
dc.date.copyright Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2006
dc.date.issued 2006-01-01
dc.description.abstract <p>This research addresses changes in adolescent problem behaviors and academic achievement following a parental relationship dissolution. It employs a within-group design utilizing two waves of data from the longitudinal National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). It explores how family processes and adolescent characteristics influence adolescent outcomes for youth who experience parental marital or cohabitation dissolutions. Increases in the age of the child at dissolution, the time since dissolution, and parent-child relationship quality were related to decreases in adolescent problem behaviors over time. Increases in predissolution parental conflict were related to increases in problem behaviors. In addition, parental marital status was related to adolescent problem behaviors with those who experienced marital dissolution being more likely to experience increases in problem behaviors after a dissolution than those who experienced cohabitation dissolution. Higher levels of post-dissolution adolescent self-esteem were related to increases in academic achievement, while older children at the time of dissolution had decreases in academic achievement. In addition, increases in income and increases in parent-child relationship quality were related to decreases in problem behaviors for those youth who experienced lower levels of self-esteem. Increases in the quality of the parent-child relationship were related to increases in academic achievement for those youth who had experienced high levels in predissolution parental conflict. Finally, increases in income were related to increases in academic achievement for those youth who also experienced increases in parent-child relationship quality.</p>
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dc.identifier archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/19016/
dc.identifier.articleid 20016
dc.identifier.contextkey 14541169
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dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/72980
dc.language.iso en
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dc.subject.keywords Human Development and Family Studies
dc.title Parental relationship dissolutions : the influence of parent-child relationship quality and adolescent self-esteem on adolescent wellbeing
dc.type article
dc.type.genre thesis
dspace.entity.type Publication
thesis.degree.discipline Human Development and Family Studies
thesis.degree.level thesis
thesis.degree.name Master of Science
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