Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction

In this study, the degree to which young adults felt caught between their parents was tested as a mediator between marital conflict behaviors and young adults’ mental health and family satisfaction. Participants included 1170 young adult children from first marriage and postdivorce families in four different states. Using structural equation modeling, the results revealed that parents’ symbolic aggression, demand/withdraw patterns, and negative disclosures were positively associated with young adult children's feelings of being caught. Such feelings, in turn, were inversely associated with children's reports of family satisfaction and mental health. Although young adult children from divorced families witnessed, on average, more marital aggression, negative disclosures, and demand/withdraw patterns than those from nondivorced families, the associations in the model were relatively comparable across both family types. Further, tests of mediation revealed that feeling caught served primarily as a partial mediator for family satisfaction and as a full mediator for mental health, though such feelings suppressed the positive effect of parental disclosures on family satisfaction for children in nondivorced families. Finally, children's closeness with both parents moderated the associations in the model.     

英语学习者形名搭配特点分析

词语搭配是语言的固有特征之一,也是衡量学习者能否熟练使用语言的重要标准之一。运用对比分析的方法考察了英语学习者描述文中形容词与名词搭配的掌握情况。研究发现,学习者形容词词汇贫乏且搭配能力亟待提高,迁移是引起形名搭配错误的主要原因,直译是学习者生成目标语的主要策略。建议英语教学应重视词汇搭配教学。