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The retrospective narratives of young women's experience of parental divorce
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between the long-term effects of parental divorce on children and the meaning of the divorce. Specifically, this study focused on the role meaning played in whether or not long-term effects of parental divorce were experienced many years after the fact. This was done by interviewing young adult females, between the ages of 18-21, whose parents divorced nine or more years prior to the study. Long-term effects of divorce were experienced in the following areas: on views of self, on relationship with parents, and on relationship with others. Those who reported long-term effects of the divorce experienced the divorce as a form of loss, whereas those who reported little or no long-term effects experienced the divorce as a form of freedom. The effects of the divorce and its meaning were found to be interdependent. Issues of identification with mother and with the parental relationship are discussed.
Subject Area
Clinical psychology
Recommended Citation
Temblador, Brenda, "The retrospective narratives of young women's experience of parental divorce" (1994). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9420695.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9420695