Sociology of Education 2005, Vol. 78 (April): 144–164 144 Social scientists who have studied the family and those who have studied educational stratification have produced convincing evidence that parental divorce is negatively associated with educational success. Compared to children who live with both parents until adulthood, children from divorced families have lower educational expectations...

Parental divorce is associated with a number of emotional and behavioral problems in young-adult offspring, but theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that the relation may be partially or fully accounted for by passive gene-environment correlation or environmental selection characteristics. The current study used the Children of Twins Design to explore whether shared environmental or...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between using the social networking site known as Facebook and negative interpersonal relationship outcomes. A survey of 205 Facebook users aged 18-82 was conducted using a 16-question online survey to examine whether high levels of Facebook use predicted negative relationship outcomes (breakup/divorce, emotional cheating, and...

Objectives. The effectiveness of a therapeutic approach for the divorced parents (on an individual level as well on couple) was studied; process aimed at improving connection between and, subsequently, child-parent relationship. Material and methods. study includes five couples that have been submitted to psychological evaluation request legal system Romania, 2019-2020. Both children parental d...

Divorce is a highly stressful event, and much remains to be learned about the factors that promote psychological resilience when marriages come to an end. In this study, divorcing adults (N = 109) completed a 4-min stream-of-consciousness recording about their marital separation at an initial laboratory visit. Four judges rated the degree to which participants exhibited self-compassion (defined...

Literature on effects of marital conflict and divorce on child development has long wondered 1) whether divorce followed by parents’ marital conflict exerts distinguishable impacts on children and 2) whether marital conflict is more detrimental to involved children than divorce per se. We address these questions using the Korea Youth Panel Study-Elementary School Students that traced students f...