Effects of marital and parent-child relations on children's adjustment.

Investigated the effects of marital dissatisfaction, marital conflict, and the parent–child relationship on the childhood adjustment of 30 boys and 26 girls (aged 6–14 yrs) in 47 nonclinic families. In support of previous findings, results of a battery of tests show a strong relationship between mothers' marital satisfaction and conflict style and their own ratings of boys' adjustment. However, based on fathers' and children's reports, marital satisfaction and conflict style did not contribute unique variance over the parent–child relationship in predicting children's adjustment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)