interparental
- adjective
- For example, Buehler and colleagues (1998) report that in both divorced and non-divorced families, interparental conflict accounts for a sizeable proportion of problem behaviors.
- an interparental relationship
Examples
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In contrast to the effect of the quality of the parental marriage on offspring adjustment, little is known about how offspring themselves may affect the interparental relationship (Cummings, Goeke-Moerey & Dukewich, 2001).
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Counseling can help resolve interparental disputes that affect family dynamics.
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This reflection is likely to have an impact on the interparental relationship.
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When young people are confronted with issues of mature intimate relationships, the quality of the interparental relationship becomes more salient to them.
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Further, as described in the introduction, delayed effects of interparental problems may appear in late adolescence in the form of sleeper effects.
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Yet, exposure to interparental conflict is a common source of stress for children and has been shown to be predictive of problems in emotional adjustment during adolescence.
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That is, the emotional adjustment of adolescent girls, as well as interparental disharmony, may spill over into the parent-child system, thereby affecting each other.
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Moreover, the fact that adolescents and young adults are more likely than younger children to become involved in the parental marriage may not only result in a greater vulnerability to the interparental realm for older compared to younger adolescents, but may also result in a greater influence of these older adolescents themselves on the parental relationship.
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It may be that as girls reach young adulthood, when they themselves become involved in intimacy development (Orlofsky, 1993) and in developing steady intimate relationships, they only then become fully aware of interparental disharmony.
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The study focused on the effects of interparental conflict on children's emotional well-being.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Interparental comes from the prefix inter- ('between') and parent ('mother or father'). The inter- part is the same 'between' you see in interact, so interparental describes things that happen 'between' parents, like their communication or conflict.