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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
The cognitive-contextual framework (Grych & Fincham, 1990)
proposes that children’s appraisals of interparental conflict shape
the impact of conflict on their adjustment.
The interparental conflict influences the relationship between
parents and child, witch can lead to a deterioration of the affective
and physics disponability of parents (Grych & Fincham, 1990).
Aims of the study: The study aimes to identify the child’s
perception of the parental conflict and to analyse the influence of
the relation between parents and child and the perception of the
parental conflict.
Materials and Methods: A Quantitative and Transversal study.
Measures: Children’s Perception of Interparental conflict (CPIC) by
Grych; Seid and Fincham, (1992) - Children Report on Parental
Behavior Inventory CRPBI-30 by Schludermann and Schludermann
(1988).
Analysis:Inferencial analysis – Multiple regression
Participants:2280 children aged between 8 and 11 attending schools
in Madeira Island (simple random probabilistic sample).
Summary and Key findings: The age average of the children is
9.51 years, (SD= 1.03). 34.2% have ten years olds. Most (52.1%)
of the total were boys. The majority (77.9%) of the children never
failed. 82% were living with both biological parents. The
predominant (75.8%) type of family is nuclear. 86.5% of the
children had daily contact with father and 96.4% with mother.
38.3% of the children are the younger brother and 29.7% are the
eldest.
More then half of the mothers (55%) were between 30 e 40 years
old and 45.7% of the fathers were between 40 and 50 years old.
Most of the parents were married or live together (86.7% fathers
and 88.2% mothers).
44.1% of the fathers and 39%of the mothers has the 1 th education
level.
Conclusions: Correlations shows that Acceptance is negatively
associated with interparental conflict, however Psychological Control
is positively associated with interparental conflict.
Children that had a relationship of acceptance with their mother
perceived lower levels of interparental conflict.
Children that had more Psychological Control of the mother
perceived higher levels of interparental conflict.
Nursing assumes a nucleus role to be a profession able to detect
cases of imbalance within the family, involving simultaneously
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