The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between how children are informed of their parents' divorce process decisions and (1) their emotional reactions to the news, (2) their view of their relationships with their parents and (3) how the children see their own general ability to cope. / Seventy parents, representative of recently divorced residents of Leon County, Florida, along with one child of each, between the ages of 7 and 17, were studied, using a highly structured interview research design. / Two relationships were found that could be considered significant. There was a statistically significant inverse relationship between the child's age when told about the divorce and the degree of unhappiness the child felt at the news. Based on the child's perception of whether it was told of the divorce pre-separation, and the assumption that children's fear of abandonment, if it were to change significantly, would only lessen with age, a one-tailed probability t-test showed a statistically significant inverse relationship between the child's age at parental separation and the child's fear of abandonment. / The results of analysis of the data did not support the hypothesis that if a child receives a one-sided account of the divorce decision, the child is significantly more likely to blame only one parent for it. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-03, Section: A, page: 1141. / Major Professor: Charles R. Figley. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77381 |
| Contributors | Ducibella, John Stephen., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 224 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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