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Title: Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Well-Being
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Hair, Elizabeth Catherine Moore, Kristin Anderson Kaye, Kelleen Day, Randal D. Orthner, Dennis K. |
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Well-Being ASPE Research Brief, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), January 2009. Also: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/RelationshipStrengths/Well-Being/rb.shtml Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keyword(s): Children, Well-Being; Educational Outcomes; Families, Two-Parent; Health Factors; Health, Mental/Psychological; Marital Dissolution; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Religious Influences; Sexual Activity; Substance Use; Transition, Adulthood OVERVIEW While a number of studies have examined the effects of marital disruption on adolescent well-being, few have studied the implications of marital conflict and relationship quality for child well-being in married-couple families. This represents an important gap in the research, since most children live in married couple families. The present study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97), a nationally representative sample of adolescents who are being followed into adulthood to examine how parent marital quality among intact families interacts with the quality of the parent-adolescent relationships to predict physical health, mental health, substance use, sexual activity, religious activity, and educational outcomes in middle adolescence and early adulthood. Results indicate that adolescents whose parents have a high quality relationship and who have a good parent-adolescent relationship with both parents consistently had the best outcomes. Ironically, these types of parent/child situations are among the least studied. SUMMARY This study of adolescents in married couple families finds that the combined nature of parent marital quality and parent-youth relationships affect physical health, mental health, and substance abuse outcomes for youth in middle adolescence and, to a lesser extent, early adulthood. Specifically, among adolescents in married-couple families, those whose parents experienced marital discord and poor parent-adolescent relationships during their early adolescent years fare worse on a range of indicators of physical health, mental health, substance use, sexual activity, religious activity, and education outcomes. Furthermore, this research offers preliminary evidence that both parental marital quality and positive parent-adolescent relationships are important to well-being outcomes later in adolescence and extending in some cases even into early adulthood. |
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Hair, Elizabeth Catherine, Kristin Anderson Moore, Kelleen Kaye, Randal D. Day and Dennis K. Orthner. "Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent and Young Adult Well-Being." ASPE Research Brief, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), January 2009. |