A Child's Hidden Struggles: Self-Efficacy and Painful Feelings in the Years following Parental Separation. Issue 2 (17th February 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bell, Caitlin; Francia, Leanne; Millear, Prudence
• Is Part Of: Journal of divorce & remarriage. Volume 63:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 150
• Page End: 165
• Publication Date: 2022-02-17
• Subjects: Self-efficacy -- post separation conflict -- painful feelings of divorce -- children; Divorce -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals; Divorce -- Periodicals; Remarriage -- Periodicals; 306.89
• DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2021.1993020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1050-2556

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The current study examined the influence of post-separation co-parental conflict on participants' self-efficacy and current distress, through the Cooperative-Competitive Parental Conflict Model. Participants were a community sample of 77 people who experienced parental separation as a child. Cooperative co-parenting was positively associated with good fathering, good mothering, and negatively associated with blaming father/mother for the separation, loss, and abandonment, and seeing life through the separation. Low self-efficacy, blaming mother, and acceptance of the separation predicted participant's current distress. The findings highlight the impact of post-separation co-parental conflict on children's self-efficacy and current distress.