Remarriage families, which are established following divorce, have soared over the last two decades. Most divorced persons remarry. In 1985, 29.7% of all marriages which took place in Canada involved at least one divorced person. A major problem identified in studying remarriage among Northeastern Frenchspeaking Ontarians is the lack of previous research. There are few Canadian empirical studies on remarriage. / This exploratory study was concerned with remarriages where mothers, stepfathers and adolescents were involved. A nonrandom sample of fifty-one volunteer Franco-Ontarian stepfather families answered written questionnaires. All families had one biological parent, the mother, who had remarried following divorce. The Stepfamily Adjustment Scale by Crosbie-Burnett (1989) was translated and adapted to the Franco-Ontarian context by this researcher. The instrument is composed of three questionnaires, individually and confidentially answered by the mother, the stepfather and the adolescent in the stepfamily. These instruments reflect the perceptions of these stepfamily members on the stepfamily adjustment. The data was then compared with a sample of forty-two stepfather families from Wisconsin. / As the samples are nonrandom, generalization cannot be mads to a larger population. The major contributions of this study lie in suggesting that overall the two comparative groups showed no statistically significant differences. The hypothesis that Northern Ontario stepfathers would be more disciplinarians than stepfathers in the Wisconsin group was not supported. It was also found that the couples (biomother and stepfather) were the ones who in reality of daily life made the rules and disciplined the children. Adjustment of these stepfamilies was supported more by the quality of the steprelationships than by the marital happiness of the couples. Sex and age, except the ages of adolescents in the stepfamilies, made a statistical significant difference in stepfamily adjustment. Further research is suggested to assess Northern Ontario Frenchspeaking stepfamilies in a minority cultural context. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: B, page: 6453. / Major Professor: Bruce Bellingham. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77753 |
| Contributors | Beauvolsk, Michel Andre., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 323 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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