Reconsidering Research On Divorce, Family Life Cycle, And The Meaning Of Family

Rice, Joy K.

doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1994.tb01048.x

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“…Many more women than in past historical periods can now choose to leave unsatisfactory marriages or to have children on their own, outside of the context of a traditional marriage. Two of three divorces are now initiated by women (Rice, 1994).…”

Section: Change and The Change-back Reactionmentioning

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Deconstructing the essential father.

Silverstein¹,

Auerbach²

1999

American Psychologist

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In the past two decades there has been an explosion of research on fathers (see Booth & Crouter, 1998;Lamb, 1997; for recent reviews). There is now a broad consensus that fathers are important contributors to both normal and abnormal child outcomes. Infants and toddlers can be as attached to fathers as they are to mothers. In addition, even when fathers are not physically present, they may play an important role in their children's psychological lives. Other important issues about fathers and families remain controversial. For example, scholars continue to debate the extent to which paternal involvement has increased over the past 20 years (Pleck, 1997). Similarly, we are only beginning to study the ways that fathering identities vary across subcultures (Auerbach, Silverstein, & Zizi, 1997;Bowman & Forman, 1998;Roopnarine, Snell-White, & Riegraf, 1993). Nor do we understand clearly the effects of divorce on fathers and their children (Hetherington, Bridges, & Insabella, 1998).Overall, this explosion of research on fathering has increased the complexity of scholarly thinking about parenting and child development. However, one group of social scientists (e. g. Biller & Kimpton, 1997;Blankenhorn, 1995;Popenoe, 1996) has emerged that is offering a more simplistic view of the role of fathers in families. These neoconservative social scientists have replaced the earlier "essentializing" of mothers (Bowlby, 1951) with a claim about the essential importance of fathers. These authors have proposed that the roots of a wide range of social problems (i. e. child poverty, urban decay, societal violence, teenage pregnancy, and poor school performance) can be traced to the absence of fathers in the lives of their children. Biller DECONSTRUCTING THE ESSENTIAL FATHER

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Section: Change and The Change-back Reactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing the essential father.

Silverstein¹,

Auerbach²

1999

American Psychologist

232

167

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“…As has been shown the divorce phenomenon is a complex and multidimensional process (Guttman, 1993) that produces emotional crisis in individuals that often leads to conflict (Rice, 1994). As previously discussed the reasons for divorce are numerous and in many cases conflict is unavoidable.…”

Section: Divorce Conflictmentioning

confidence: 97%

Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

D’Ambrosio¹

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DEDICATIONThis dissertation is dedicated to:1. My children, Lauren, Robert and Nicoletta, whose love inspires me to live life meaningfull y.2. Os. Japie Vermeulen, who never formally received his PhD because much like me, life held too many other interesting mysteries for him, and he didn't have my mentor to guide him through completion of his dissertation. The scale was developed with a sample of 518 individuals who were going through a divorce or had been through a divorce. It measures high love, low love and hate actions toward a former spouse. The validation of the SPSLI utilized Classical Measurement Theory which allowed for the examination of reliability, face and content validity on the item structure in development of the subscales. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which is theory driven, was then used to determine if higher order constructs could be found that would measure high and low love and high hate actions toward a former spouse. The results of CF A indicated that while the high love model met the requirements of a reliable and valid scale (high love a=O.92) it was necessary to change some of the v theoretical assumptions followed in the study in order to create a higher order low love scale (low love a= 0.81) and a higher order hate (a=0.86) scale.Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) then guided the development of the structural model which displayed the interrelations among latent variables hypothesized to predict high love actions. Based on the squared multiple correlations, the independent variables were able to explain 24% of the variance in anger toward a former spouse, and 39% of the variance in hate toward a former spouse. After including the mediators, the independent variables, together with anger toward spouse and hate, were able to explain 17% of the variance in emotions and 40% of the variance in altruism. The total model was able to explain 28 % of the variance in love actions toward a former spouse. One of the most significant results of the study was that it was possible for individuals who experienced divorce to express other-regarding love actions toward their former spouses.Altruism and positive emotions led divorcing individuals to show other-regarding love actions no matter whether hate or anger was present.VI

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“…The failure to find support for the first hypothesis was puzzling in light of prior research (e.g., Orlofsky, Marcia, & Lesser, 1973;Fitch & Adams, 1983), as well as in light of Erikson's (1959;1994) assertion that true intimacy with self or other was dependent upon, and a natural result of, the successful development of ego identity attained through self exploration. One possible explanation for the paucity of support for the first hypothesis is that earlier work supporting the ego identity -intimacy link employed the concept of ego identity as a status and not as a style.…”

Section: Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Although significant multivariate interactions emerged as a function of both age and gender, there were no significant findings as a function of identity style category. Given that Erikson (1959;1994) suggested that individuals who have successfully resolved the identity/role confusion crisis will have done so through a process of self-exploration, it was assumed that in the context of the current project, a clear connection should have emerged between the more achieved identity style category (i.e., informational identity style) and higher scores for psychosocial balance.…”

Section: Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has also been noted that women initiate divorce twice as often as do men (Rice, 1994), suggesting that women experience greater optimism in their opportunities for future relationships compared to men. As has been stated in Bem's gender schema theory (cited in Hoffman & Borders, 2001), women possess the affective skills essential to manage relationships (e.g., nurturance, willingness to compromise, sensitivity, and affection).…”

Section: Hypothesismentioning

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Identity processing style and sex-role identity predict attachment style and psychosocial balance.

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Reconsidering Research On Divorce, Family Life Cycle, And The Meaning Of Family

Cited by 34 publications

References 56 publications

Deconstructing the essential father.

Deconstructing the essential father.

Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

Identity processing style and sex-role identity predict attachment style and psychosocial balance.

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