Dissonant relationships to biological parents and stepparents and the well-being of adult children

We examined the importance of adult children’s ties with biological parents and stepparents for well-being in adulthood. particularly focused on situations which children are not close new partner their parent, stepparent. Following balance theory, it is straining to be an unbalanced pattern (i.e., stepparent). Firstly, we studied how many adults parent only (dissonance), both stepparent (positive consonance), or neither stepfamily household (negative consonance). Secondly, if - as well as, patterns between two were associated subjective child. The OKiN data was used, includes N = 1,477 a stepfather 1,274 stepmother. OLS regression models suggested that parent-child important depression loneliness adulthood, although associations stepmother-child insignificant. Moreover, prevalence dissonant low, but consequences considerable. A distant conflictual stepparent-child tie attenuated benefits having parent. Consequently, necessarily better off terms than those negative consonant patterns.