DIVORCED WOMEN: Individual Differences in Stressors, Mediating Factors, and Adjustment Outcome | Zendy

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DIVORCED WOMEN: Individual Differences in Stressors, Mediating Factors, and Adjustment Outcome

Author(s) -

Garvin Vicki,

Kalter Neil,

Hansell James

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

american journal of orthopsychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.959

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1939-0025

pISSN - 0002-9432

DOI - 10.1037/h0079416

Subject(s) - stressor , normative , psychology , social support , outcome (game theory) , clinical psychology , social stress , sample (material) , developmental psychology , social psychology , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical economics , epistemology , chemistry , chromatography

Individual differences in exposure and response to stress in a sample of 56 divorced mothers were examined. Compared with normative data, the sample reported significantly more negative life events, more psychiatric symptoms, and poorer social adjustment. Social support and income emerged as the mediating factors most strongly associated with adjustment outcome.

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