Year: 1997
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: iii Studies of divorced families show consistent effects of divorce on children in terms of behaviour, relationships with fathers, and later, marital success.Until recently, young adults whose parents had recently separated or divorced were ignored in the literature.In the present study, 92 young adult women from intact families and 50 young s adult women whose parents had separated or divorced within the past three years responded to questionnaires about their relationships with their parents either prior to the divorce, or two to three years ago for the intact group, and at present.Twenty-seven women from separatedldivorced families were also interviewed in a sembstructured format to better understand the respondents' phenomenological experience of their 1 .parents' separationldivorce.In addition, eight men from separatedldivorced families were interviewed.In general, few effects of divorce were revealed in the quantitative findings.Specifically, daughters from separatedldivorced families were less optimistic 8 about future love relationships and marriages.Also, daughters from separatedldivorced families had less frequent phone contact with their fathers than with their mothers.Using @ an evaluative Likert-type question, daughters from separatedldivorced fa~ilies reported less positive change in their relationships with their parents than did daughters from intact families over the past three years.This last effect was not replicated using the Quality of Relationship Inventory (QRI; Pierce, Sarason, Sarason, Solky, & Nagle, 1993).Daughters from both intact and separatedldivorced families reported more anger, k iv less closeness and less positive change in quality of relationship with their fathers than , -with~their mothers.In contrast to the quantitative results, the qualitative findings from the intewiews revealed that the separationldivorce was a major event in these young * peoples' lives.The qualitative results reinforced the quantitative findingsthat 'retationshi'ps with fathers are more problematic than those with mothers.
Author: Angela Nell Haig
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2159995091