تعارضات زناشویی و ترجیحات کودک:درباره جنسیت؟

Within the field of marital conflict, a variety of theoretical frameworks have been developed attempting to explain the causal mechanisms connecting marital conflict to child adjustment. At the same time, there has been an accumulation of findings indicating that gender may be playing a significant and complex role in the relationship between marital conflict and child adjustment. However, the majority of the frameworks which have been proposed have largely overlooked these complex gender findings. The main theoretical frameworks in the field are summarized, and the implications of the accumulated gender findings for each framework are outlined. It is argued that gender may be a moderator of many of the mechanisms outlined in existing theoretical frameworks linking marital conflict to child adjustment and needs to be more effectively incorporated in future research.