Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

biological influences, biological responses, body, child's development, childhood, cognition, combination, development, difficulties, divorce, domains of development, emotional areas, emotional regulation, environment, environmental influences, health, health risk behaviors, insecurity, models of development, overall impact, parental practices, physical areas, problems of divorce, processes, separation, unseen processes

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology | Education | Higher Education | Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

Childhood experiences of divorce affect multiple domains of development. Cognitive, emotional and physical areas of a child’s development may be impacted by the separation.  Models of development which take into account both biological and environmental influences suggest that problems of divorce impact the parental practices towards the children which lead to difficulties in emotional regulation and insecurity. These arenas impact health in both explicit health risk behaviors as well as biological responses within the body. The combination of these seen and unseen processes contribute to an overall impact on health.

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