Divorce has been conceptualized as a process. Research has extensively demonstrated that it is pre/postdivorce family environment factors that primarily account for the variability in children’s adaptation over parental divorce process rather than the legal divorce per se. Amongst various factors, interparental conflict has been consistently identified as a prominent one. Surprisingly, a single source is still lacking that comprehensively synthesizes the extant findings. This review fills this gap by integrating the numerous findings across studies into a more coherent Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model to illustrate that pre/postdivorce interparental conflict plays crucial roles in shaping child adaptation trajectories across parental divorce process. This review also summarizes the mechanisms (e.g., child cognitive and emotional processes, coparenting, parent–child relations) via which pre/postdivorce interparental conflict determines these trajectories and the factors (e.g., child gender and age, child coping, grandparental support) that interact with pre/postdivorce interparental conflict to further complicate these trajectories. In addition, echoing the call of moving beyond the monolithic conceptualization of pre/postdivorce interparental conflict, we also review studies on the differential implications of different aspects (e.g., frequency versus intensity) and types (e.g., overt versus covert) of interparental conflict for child adjustment. Last, limitations of prior studies and avenues for future research are discussed. The proposed framework may serve as a common knowledge base for researchers to compare/interpret results, detect cutting edges of the fields, and design new studies. The specificity, complexity, nuance, and diversity inherent within our proposed model await to be more fully revealed.

离婚被概念化为一个过程。研究广泛表明，离婚前后的家庭环境因素是造成儿童对父母离婚过程适应差异的主要原因，而不是合法离婚本身。在众多因素中，父母之间的冲突一直被认为是一个突出的因素。令人惊讶的是，仍然缺乏一个单一来源来全面综合现有的发现。本综述通过将众多研究结果整合到一个更加连贯的离婚过程和儿童适应轨迹类型学（DPCATT）模型中来填补这一空白，以说明离婚前/后父母之间的冲突在父母离婚过程中塑造儿童适应轨迹方面发挥着至关重要的作用。这篇综述还总结了离婚前/后父母间冲突决定这些轨迹的机制（例如，儿童认知和情感过程、共同养育、亲子关系）以及影响这些轨迹的因素（例如，儿童性别和年龄、儿童应对方式、祖父母支持）。与离婚前/离婚后父母之间的冲突相互作用，使这些轨迹进一步复杂化。此外，响应超越离婚前/离婚后父母间冲突的单一概念化的呼吁，我们还回顾了关于父母间冲突的不同方面（例如，频率与强度）和类型（例如，公开与隐蔽）的不同影响的研究。儿童调整。最后，讨论了先前研究的局限性和未来研究的途径。所提出的框架可以作为研究人员比较/解释结果、检测领域前沿和设计新研究的公共知识库。 我们提出的模型中固有的特殊性、复杂性、细微差别和多样性有待更充分地揭示。