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Predictors of Divorce Adjustment: Stressors, Resources, and Definitions
Hongyu Wang,Paul R. Amato +1 more
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This paper used data from 208 individuals who divorced during a 17-year longitudinal study to examine factors that predict adjustment to marital disruption and found that adjustment would be associated with variables reflecting stressors, resources, and people's definitions of the divorce.Abstract:
We used data from 208 individuals who divorced during a 17-year longitudinal study to examine factors that predict adjustment to marital disruption. Using stress and coping theory as a guide, we hypothesized that adjustment would be associated with variables reflecting stressors, resources, and people's definitions of the divorce. Contrary to expectations, we found little evidence that stressors (large declines in per capita income, losing friends, or moving) affected divorce adjustment, except among individuals who were not employed. Adjustment was positively associated with income, dating someone steadily, remarriage, having favorable attitudes toward marital dissolution prior to divorce, and being the partner who initiated the divorce. In addition, older individuals showed some evidence of poorer adjustment than did younger individuals. Language: enread more
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The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children
TL;DR: This article summarized and organized the empirical literature on the consequences of divorce for adults and children, and drew on research in the 1990s to answer five questions: How do individuals from married and divorced families differ in well-being? Do these differences reflect a temporary crisis to which most people gradually adapt or stable life strains that persist more or less indefinitely? What factors mediate the effects of divorce on individual adjustment? And finally, what are the moderators (protective factors) that account for individual variability in adjustment to divorce?
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Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the recent research on divorce, including the predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and the well-being of children and former spouses, and interventions for divorcing couples.
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People's Reasons for Divorcing Gender, Social Class, the Life Course, and Adjustment
Paul R. Amato,Denise Previti +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people who attributed the cause of the divorce to the relationship itself, rather than to internal (self) or external factors, tended to have the best post-divorce adjustment.
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The gray divorce revolution: rising divorce among middle-aged and older adults, 1990-2010.
Susan L. Brown,I-Fen Lin +1 more
TL;DR: This study documents how the divorce rate among persons aged 50 and older has changed between 1990 and 2010 and identifies the sociodemographic correlates of divorce among today's middle-aged and older adults.
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Family Structure Transitions and Maternal Parenting Stress
TL;DR: Mothers' resources, especially their relationships with biological fathers, account for most of the associations between transitions and parenting stress, with posttransition resources being more important than pretransition resources.
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