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The Effects of Interparental Marital Conflict on College Student Mental Health
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2025-05-19
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While marital conflict is a key factor in the quality of marriages and pertinent to child functioning, little research has been conducted on the potential continuing effects that interparental conflict may have on emerging adults. The current study examined the association between interparental marital conflict, parental marital satisfaction, and child mental health outcomes. The participants were 176 emerging adults and 163 of their parents. Children completed online questionnaires about their self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and their parents? marital conflict, while parents answered online surveys about their marital conflict, their marital satisfaction, and the conflict resolution strategies used by them and their partner. Results indicate that frequent interparental marital conflict negatively influences the mental health outcomes of emerging adult children, while cooperative interparental conflict has positive impacts on child mental health. Results also suggest that interparental marital conflict and strategy use are significant factors in parental marital satisfaction, and that no discrepancies exist between mother-father-child reports of interparental conflict and conflict strategy use in emerging adulthood.
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Psychology