Postdivorce Coparenting Typologies and Children's Adjustment

The authors performed a cluster analysis on data from 270 divorced or separated parents to classify their perceived coparental relationship with their ex-spouse and test if parents' perceptions of their children's postdivorce adjustment differed based on their perceptions of their postdivo...

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Published in:Family relations 2014-10, Vol.63 (4), p.526-537
Main Authors: Beckmeyer, Jonathon J., Coleman, Marilyn, Ganong, Lawrence H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment
Behavior Problems
child adjustment
Child care
Child Rearing
Children
Children & youth
Cluster analysis
Divorce
Divorced persons
Factor Analysis
Family Environment
Family relations
Interpersonal Competence
Multivariate Analysis
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Parent child relations
Parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
Perceptions
Perceptual motor coordination
postdivorce coparenting
Social Competence
Social skills
Typology
Wellbeing
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Summary:The authors performed a cluster analysis on data from 270 divorced or separated parents to classify their perceived coparental relationship with their ex-spouse and test if parents' perceptions of their children's postdivorce adjustment differed based on their perceptions of their postdivorce coparental relationship. The cluster analysis resulted in three types of coparenting relationships: cooperative and involved, moderately engaged, and infrequent but conflictual. Despite the expectation that children fare better if their divorced parents' develop a cooperative coparenting relationship, the authors found that parents' reports o f their children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors and their social skills did not significantly differ by type o f postdivorce coparental relationships. Results, therefore, suggest that the direct influence o f postdivorce coparenting on children's adjustment may not as robust as predicted in the literature.
ISSN:0197-6664
1741-3729
0197-6664
DOI:10.1111/fare.12086