Three of these studies reported that none of their psychosocial variables were significant predictors of subsequent
psychological adjustment after existing distress levels were controlled for (Newton et al., 1990; Fisher et al., 2008; Verhaak et al., 2010).
Not exact matches
If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and
psychological suffering, but only
after passing through a long and very painful period of
adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
According to a 2004 report by the American
Psychological Association, low levels of parental conflict during and
after a divorce are key factors in a child's post-divorce
adjustment
At the second assessment, which took place about five months
after the study began, both groups of couples again completed questionnaires reporting on their relationships and their general
psychological adjustment.