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Measuring children's reactions to divorce
Author(s) -
Kelly Robert,
Berg Berthold
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<215::aid-jclp2270340145>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - psychology , internal consistency , test (biology) , developmental psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , consistency (knowledge bases) , test validity , clinical psychology , psychometrics , social psychology , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
Tested 488 elementary and junior high school children to evaluate the utility of a test constructed to measure children's emotional and attitudinal reactions to separation and divorce. Test‐retest reliability was found to be 0.73 and internal consistency 0.71. The test also was found to differentiate significantly among groups of children with divorced parents, unhappy but intact families, and happy‐intact families. Uses of the test for clinical and research purposes are discussed.