Table 2.

Standardized Coefficients Showing Associations between Parents’ Marital Conflict and Young Adult Children’s Relationships with Parents: Men in Nondivorced Families versus Men in Divorced Families; Women in Nondivorced Families versus Women in Divorced Families

	Mother-Child Relationships				Father-Child Relationships
	Men		Women		Men		Women
	Nondivorced n = 113	Divorced n = 93	Nondivorced n = 105	Divorced n = 112	Nondivorced n = 108	Divorced n = 72	Nondivorced n = 103	Divorced n = 90
Factor Loadings
Marital Conflict
Verbal	.94	.65	.70	.57	.90	.70	.72	.59
Psychological	.75	.87	.99	.99	.79	.81	.99	.99
Physical	.45	.78	.54	.73	.48	.66	.52	.67
Close-Support
Relationship quality	.76	.93	73	.94	.67	70	.71	.93
Received support	.76	.64	.76	.77	.68	.87	.72	.85
Positive involvement	.61	.56	.78	.79	.64	.89	.74	.88
Conflict-Control
Conflict	.78	.72	.58	.48	.71	.47	.63	.94
Disagreement	.81	.58	.58	.53	.64	.53	.78	.58
Psychological control	.68	.85	.86	.90	.77	.88	.83	.51
Structural Paths
Conflict – Close-Support	.01	−.06	−23*	−.10	−.12	−.10	−.10	−.18
Conflict – Conflict-Control	.08	−.17	−27*	−.05	.14	.02	−.11	−.03

Notes. All factor loadings were significant. Both models controlled for SES, child ethnicity, child age at divorce, parental remarriage status, and timing at which the last marital conflict measure was collected. Fit indices of unconstrained model for mother-child relationships: χ² (146) = 276.62, CFI = .90, RMSEA = .046 Fit indices of unconstrained model for father-child relationships: χ² (146) = 233.85, CFI = .92, RMSEA = .040.

^*p < .05.