Abstract
Past research has documented the negative impact of parental divorce and interparental conflict on romantic relationship quality but in isolated studies. Limited studies have compared both parental divorce and interparental conflict on young adult’s dating relationships. This study aimed to fill this gap by identifying the roles of parental divorce and interparental conflict and how they interact on the relationship between parental divorce, interparental conflict, and romantic relationship quality of young adults. A total of 297 Maldivian undergraduate students, who were in a dating romantic relationship, between the ages of 18 to 25 participated in the study. Data was collected using a self-administered set of questionnaires. Relationship quality was measured using the Relationship Quality Component Inventory and perceived interparental conflict was measured using Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC). The collected data were analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and PLS-SEM software. Results revealed that parental divorce and interparental conflict was negatively associated with low romantic relationship quality. Additionally, Perceived interparental conflict mediated the relationship between parental divorce and relationship quality of young dating adults.
Highlights
A healthy romantic relationship is an indicator of the overall wellbeing of an individual (Adamczyk, 2017)
Even though we did not aim at finding out how interparental conflict impacted the romantic relationship quality of young adults from intact families, we found that high levels of interparental conflict was observed and recorded by children from intact families
The findings suggest that parental divorce and interparental conflict was associated with low quality of the romantic relationship
Summary
A healthy romantic relationship is an indicator of the overall wellbeing of an individual (Adamczyk, 2017). Exploring the development of romantic relationships in young adults are of importance as the development and dissolution of a romantic relationship has important implications for their emotional and physical wellbeing (Sbarra, 2006). The limited studies exploring interparental conflict has mainly focused on married couples and less importance have been given to young adults in dating relationships even when it has been established that romantic relationships in young adults are of importance (Collins & van Dulmen, 2006). This study addresses this issue by investigating the role of parental divorce and interparental conflict on young dating adult’s romantic relationship quality
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