抄録
Post-divorce parental disclosures(P-DPD), in which parents tell their children about their ex-spouse after a divorce, has an impact on the parent–child relationship. Previous research has assumed that P-DPD is negative. The present study aimed to develop a parental disclosure scale that includes positive aspects. Additionally, we investigated the effects of parental disclosure on children’s mental health. Sixty-one Japanese participants who experienced parental divorce were asked to respond to the parental disclosure scale, as well as the parental affinity scale, mental health scale, and items on socio-demographic information. The results indicated that the factor structure of the P-DPD scale included 19 items and two factors. The P-DPD scale showed adequate internal reliability. Although positive parental disclosure did not directly affect children’s mental health, it indirectly improved mental health through the affinity to the live-in parent. Further, only in the group with interaction with the separated parent did negative parent disclosure increase the affinity for the separated parent. These results suggest that positive parental disclosure is important in Japan. The P-DPD scale that assessed both positive and negative aspects could be expected to be used to determine the quality of the parent– child relationships after divorce.
