Children's perceptions of marital discord and behavior problems of boys and girls
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 10 (1), 11-24
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00915948
Abstract
Children's feelings of nonacceptance and their perceptions of their parents' marital discord were related to parental measures of marital satisfaction and behavior problems in the children. In a sample of 50 clinic children, it was found that (1) marital discord, as predicted, was most strongly related to conduct problems in boys, (2) boys and girls perceived parental marital discord with equal and moderate accuracy, and (3) children's feelings of nonacceptance were not significantly related to ratings of marital discord. These findings are discussed as they relate to etiological explanations of the impact of marital discord on children.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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