Studied relationship between social support and psychological distress in first-married and remarried newlyweds (N=427). Identified social support providers to husbands and wives who were (l) both first time marrieds; (2) one was first time married and other remarried; (3) both remarrieds. Found variation by group on those named as support…

Surveyed 25 divorced mothers and their children to study divorce experiences and predictors of adjustment. Results showed mothers' positive adjustment was related to nontraditional sex role attitudes as well as personality traits including social maturity. Parental conflict and mothers' stress influenced children's social and psychological…

Single divorced parents were interviewed about the degree of conflict in the preseparation period, their children's reactions to the news of the separation, their children's present attitude toward the divorce, and their own estimation of the strengths their children had acquired as a result of adjusting to the divorce. (Author)

Administered questionnaires to divorced, single custodial parents and their 5 to 19-year-old children. Found positive reactions and adjustments related to children defining divorce in terms of psychological separation between the parents, sharing concerns with friends, positive evaluations of both parents, and acquiring strengths and…

Examined psychological adjustment and correlates of psychological adjustment of seventh and ninth grade students residing in two-parent nuclear families, stepfather families, and mother-custody divorced families. Adjustment related negatively to family conflict and to use of externalizing coping strategies, and positively to the family dimensions…