In this study, we aim to discover how Chinese adults’ perceive the influence of their parents’ divorce on their academic performance. A total number of 22 Chinese adult participants took part in the individual semi-structured interviews, and answers were analyzed by using content analysis. The results of the study show a partial consistence with previous research that there might be short-term negative influence of parents’ divorce on their children’s’ academic performance. Yet these participants recounted that they were able to independently cope with the stressful situations related to their parents’ divorce and reduce, or even remove, the negative influence on their academic studies in the long term. Other participants who regarded themselves as highly social and communicative and/or who received social support did not perceive any negative influence. We show that external factors, such as how parents handle the divorce and support from other family members, teachers and peers, might work together with participants’ internal factors to result in reducing negative influences on academic performance and achievements.

Nowadays there are still more and more children from divorced family. Divorce influences not only children's mental state but also socialization. Children's relationshiops are based on interactions with their parents. That is why this diploma thesis deals with attachment of children of divorced family. The theoretical part describes theory of attachment. There are terms as attachment, inner working models and types of behaviour influenced by attachment. Following this information there is despription of affective development and socialization from prenatal period to adolescence. Next chapter is about family and its history. There is also description of its function and types of nuclear family. Chapter about divorced family describes influence on children and setting after divorce.