Spouses admit that when conflict and tension arise between one another, their relationships with their children suffer.
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Chrystyna Kouros focuses on understanding depressive symptoms and depression in the context of family stress.
One line of her research focuses on the etiology, maintenance, and progression of child and adolescent depression, and how symptoms change over time. She has a particular interest in the effects of children’s exposure to everyday marital conflict and parental psychopathology.
U.S. News reporter Robert Preidt explains that the repercussion of a marital dispute can be a damaged relationship between parents and their children in his article “Parents’ Fights May Strain Bonds With Their Kids,” which published Aug. 28.
EXCERPT:
By Robert Preidt
U.S News
Arguments between parents may damage their relationships with their children, a new study indicates.Parents in more than 200 families were asked to make daily diary entries for 15 days. At the end of each day, mothers and fathers rated the quality of their marriage and their relationship with their children.
On days when parents reported conflict and tension in their marriage, their dealings with their children were also strained, according to the study recently published in the Journal of Family Psychology.
However, there were notable differences between mothers and fathers. Marital conflict affected mothers’ relationships with their children for just one day.
“In fact, in that situation, moms appeared to compensate for their marital tension. Poor marital quality actually predicted an improvement in the relationship between the mom and the child. So, the first day’s adverse spillover is short-lived for moms,” study author Chrystyna Kouros, an assistant professor in the psychology department at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, said in a university news release.
It was a different story with fathers.
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