Adolescents’ Perception of Inter-Parental Conflict and Impact on Psychological Distress

By : Md. Shahinuzzaman, Asoke Kumar Saha, Shamima Akhtar

Page No: 367-376

Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between interparental conflict and adolescent’s psychological distress. The current study was examined the relationship of conflict properties, threat to self, and self-blame with adolescent’s psychological distress. A total of 383 adolescents’ respondents participated as a sample. The sample was selected from eight secondary schools by using two stage cluster sampling technique at Dhaka city. The instruments used in this study were demographic and personal information questionnaire, Children’s Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale (Grych, Seid, & Fincham, 1992); and Distress-Weinberger Adjustment Inventory Scale (Weinberger & Schwartz, 1990). Results indicated that conflict properties, threat to self and self-blame were predictors of psychological distress. These three variables accounted for only 89.5% variance of psychological distress. Among these three variables, threat to self was the strongest predictor, which alone explained by 69.9% variance of psychological distress.

Authors :
Md. Shahinuzzaman : Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.
Asoke Kumar Saha : Professor, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.
Shamima Akhtar : Ex Ms Student, Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.