The primary purpose of this research was to impact the level of adjustment of latency aged children of divorce by engaging their participation in a group experience consisting of mini-lectures about divorce, interpersonal relations skill building exercises, and role playing of divorce relevant parent-child interactions. The variables of behaviors at home, behaviors at school, and attitudes toward parental separation were examined as they related to parental divorce. Thirty-eight children were the subjects in this pretest-posttest control group design of three months duration. The instruments used at pre and posttesting were the Louisville Behavior Checklist, Form E-2, the School Behavior Checklist, Form A2, and the Children's Attitudes Toward Parental Separation Inventory, Form SD. In addition, at posttesting a parental questionnaire and a child questionnaire, both developed by this researcher, were administered. The following conclusions were generated: (1) that parents reported greater reductions in deviant behaviors at home than teachers noted at school, or than children themselves reported in any setting; (2) that parents of children in the experimental group reported greater increases in frequency of parent-child interactions following participation in the group experience; (3) that neither gender of the child nor remarriage by the custodial parent had significant impact upon the adjustment levels of participants; (4) that time since divorce was related to adjustment level such that the more recent the divorce occurred the higher the frequency of deviant behaviors at home were reported by parents. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-09, Section: A, page: 3927. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74605 |
| Contributors | YOUNG, JAMES HENRY, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 212 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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