It also challenged Western Christianity's historic conception of
a unitary global order, one that went back to Constantine and the fusion of religious and imperial authority in the fourth century.
Third, although most past research in this area has used
unitary measures of child adjustment (e.g., internalizing or externalizing problems), these
global evaluations need to be complemented by more specific indices in
order to identify particular outcomes that may be more proximal or distal to particular aspects of marital conflict (Grych & Fincham, 1990).