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。研究已广泛表明，是离婚前/后的家庭环境因素主要解释了儿童对父母离婚过程的适应变化，而不是合法离婚本身。在各种因素中，父母间的冲突一直被认为是一个突出的因素。令人惊讶的是，仍然缺乏一个单一的来源来全面综合现有的发现。本综述通过将研究中的众多发现整合到更连贯的离婚过程和儿童适应轨迹类型 (DPCATT) 模型中来填补这一空白，以说明离婚前/后父母间的冲突在塑造父母离婚过程中的儿童适应轨迹方面起着至关重要的作用。本综述还总结了机制（例如，儿童认知和情感过程、共同养育、亲子关系），离婚前/后父母间冲突决定了这些轨迹，以及与离婚前/后父母间冲突相互作用的因素（例如，孩子的性别和年龄、孩子应对方式、祖父母的支持）使这些轨迹复杂化。此外，为了响应超越离婚前/后父母冲突的单一概念化的呼吁，我们还回顾了关于不同方面（例如，频率与强度）和类型（例如，公开与隐蔽）的父母间冲突的不同影响的研究。孩子的调整。最后，讨论了先前研究的局限性和未来研究的途径。提议的框架可以作为研究人员比较/解释结果的通用知识库，检测领域的前沿，并设计新的研究。我们提出的模型所固有的特殊性、复杂性、细微差别和多样性有待更充分地揭示。