Participants’ retrospective reports of whether their parents were divorced/separated while growing up between the ages of 6 and 13 were coded from questions concerning parental absence due to divorce and shared custody living arrangements from the Home Environment Interview section of the SSAGA (Bucholz et al., 1994; Holmes & Robins, 1988). Participants also retrospectively reported on their perceptions of parental relationship discord using five questions. These items asked participants about the quality of their parents’ marriage/relationship (rated on a 4-point scale, from poor to excellent) and how much conflict or tension there was in the household (rated on a 4-point scale, from none to a lot); and three yes/no questions: whether their parents usually seemed to enjoy each other; whether their parents often argued or fought in front of them; and whether either of their parents ever hit the other. A composite measure was calculated by taking the prorated sum of the items for participants who responded to at least three items. Response options were 0 (no) and 1 (yes) for binary items. For other questions, the response was made
