Faculty Articles
Parent-Child Gender Matching and Child Psychological Adjustment after Divorce
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-26-2017
Publication Title
Journal of Child Custody
Volume
14
Issue/Number
1
ISSN
1537-940X
Abstract/Excerpt
The present study aimed to determine whether a parent–child gender match would influence child psychological adjustment after divorce. Participants included 69 parents (36 mothers) in active family law litigation to resolve issues related to postdissolution of marriage or time-sharing matters. Participants provided demographic information and completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991 Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the child behavior checklist/4–18 and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont. [Google Scholar]) to assess their perceptions of their child’s internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Results demonstrated that internalizing and externalizing behaviors were not affected by whether children spent more time with the same gender parent, opposite gender parent, or split their time equally between both. Comparisons and contradictions between the results in this study and existing research are discussed, as well as practical implications.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2017.1312658
NSUWorks Citation
Faust, J.,
Ko, C.,
Alexander, A.,
Greenhawt, S. F.
(2017). Parent-Child Gender Matching and Child Psychological Adjustment after Divorce. Journal of Child Custody, 14(1).
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/1561
