College students from families of divorce: keys to their resilience

Autor:	Jennifer N Engler, Reva L Heron, Anne McIntyre, Shacunda Burton, Michael D. McIntyre
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Divorced parents Vulnerability Context (language use) Developmental psychology Distress Scale (social sciences) Developmental and Educational Psychology Personality Psychological resilience Psychology Social responsibility media_common Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 24:17-31
ISSN:	0193-3973
DOI:	10.1016/s0193-3973(03)00022-4
Popis:	College students from divorce families are noted for resilience to adjustment problems yet vulnerability to distress. We studied the impact of parental divorce and two personality characteristics (social responsibility and other-direction) on college students' adjustment problems and distress. Participants (N=197) were 105 college students with divorced parents and 92 whose parental marriages were intact. The personality characteristics were measured with the Social Responsibility Scale and the Other-Direction subscale of the Personal Behavior Inventory. Adjustment problems and distress were measured with the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Analyses indicated that all three predictor variables (parental divorce, social responsibility, and other-direction) were significantly associated with adjustment problems and distress. Parental divorce, however, was also related to higher social responsibility and lower other-direction, and this combination of personality characteristics was shown to reduce the relationship of divorce to adjustment problems but not to experienced distress. Results are discussed in the context of response to the social demands of college life.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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