@article{ref1,
title="Adolescent adjustment to perceived marital conflict",
journal="Journal of child and family studies",
year="1998",
author="Turner, Cynthia M. and Barrett, Paula M.",
volume="7",
number="4",
pages="499-513",
abstract="The cognitive-contextual framework of Grych and Fincham (1990) and the emotional-security framework of Davies and Cummings (1994) were used to explore both the direct and indirect pathways between marital conflict and adolescent adjustment. Two hundred and three non-clinic adolescents (114 females and 89 males) from intact families completed self-report questionnaires concerning their adjustment behavior, perceptions of parental conflict, and attachment to parents and peers. Marital conflict was found to have a direct effect upon adolescent adjustment, with adolescents from high-conflict homes displaying greater adjustment difficulties. Indirect effects of conflict were evident through both the adolescents' cognitive appraisals of conflict, and the adolescents' perceptions of the parent-child relationship. Differential gender effects were obtained, highlighting the importance of adolescent gender as a mediating variable. These findings were used to propose that an integrated, cognitive-emotional framework might be necessary to fully understand the conflict/adjustment relationship.<p />",
language="",
issn="1062-1024",
doi="10.1023/A:1022914211930",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022914211930"
}