Parent-adolescent separation: The role of parental divorce
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 11 (2) , 115-119
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01834707
Abstract
Previous research has identified Emotional Separation and Personal Control as two sets of home leaving indicators that are associated, respectively with relatively troubled and relatively untroubled parent-adolescent separation. As expected, among late adolescent males, parental divorce was highly related to endorsement of Emotional Separation as an important composite indicator of having left home. For females, being a firstborn was associated with endorsing Personal Control as an important composite indicator of home-leaving. Findings were interpreted as supporting previous research which has indicated that males experience more adjustment problems after parental divorce than females.Keywords
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