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Marital Conflict And Its Impact On Adolescent Children

Posted on:2006-04-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:M ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185478924Subject:Development and educational psychology
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In the literature reviews, this dissertation looks back on the theories and related researches on Interparental Conflict and Child Adjustment, in which the Cognitive-contextual Model and The Emotional Security Hypothesis have won wide support and The Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC), devised by Grych and other researchers, has had a wide range of applications. Numerous researches demonstrate that interparental conflict has a great negative impact on child adjustment. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the researches in this field, this dissertation explores and discusses the structure of junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict and its impact on their mental health, the causes and expressions of conflict in current Chinese people's marriage and its concurrent and long time effects on their children by conducting three logically precise and relatively independent researches.The first research validates the applicability of Grych and other researchers'CPIC to Chinese junior high school students, then by revision comes up with an inventory that is applicable to them, and investigates the common characteristics of Chinese junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict. With junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict as the independent variable and the mental health index as the dependent variable, the second research investigates how junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict works on their mental health system.Using the grounded theory, the author has conducted in-depth interviews with middle-aged married people, junior high school students and college students in the third research, forms a theoretical model of marital conflict by means of multi-perspective investigations, analyses its causes and expressions and further reveals its impact on pubescent children by a qualitative research. The author's conclusions are as follows: 1. The revised scale of Chinese junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict has good validity and reliability. 2. The common characteristics of Chinese junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict are: junior high school students are the most sensitive group in terms of conflict degree and girl students score significantly higher than boy students in various dimensions. 3. Junior high school students'perception of interparental conflict predicts their mental health significantly. 4. The qualitative research has formed ten conceptual categories which, according to their relations, are reduced to five core categories, namely: the causes of marital conflict, its degree, its solution, the triangulation of children, and children's adaptability in life. The qualitative research is a complement to and verification of the previous two quantitative ones.Based on the research results, this dissertation suggests that parents acquire some knowledge of and skills in coping with marital conflict, understand the psychological characteristics of pubescent children, minimize the negative impact on children, turn the negative conflict into positive communication and an opportunity of reflection so that they develop together with their children.
Keywords/Search Tags:Interparental Conflict, The Cognitive-contextual Model, The Emotional Security Hypothesis, Perception of Marital Conflict, Child Adjustment, Grounded Theory
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