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Perceptions of personal and familial adjustment by children from intact, single‐parent, and reconstituted families
Author(s) -
Nunn Gerald D.,
Parish Thomas S.,
Worthing Ralph J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198304)20:2<166::aid-pits2310200207>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , psychosocial , developmental psychology , stepfamily , anxiety , trait , perception , trait anxiety , single parent , clinical psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
The present study investigated children's ( N =566) personal and familial adjustment, and sought to determine if this varied as a function of familial configuration and gender. More specifically, these children were surveyed across a broad range of adjustment measures, including self‐concept, perception of school adjustment, home adjustment, peer relationships, state and trait anxiety, as well as their evaluations of mother, father, and family. The results from these measures revealed: (a) less positive adjustment among children from divorced families (whether the remaining parent remarried or not) as opposed to children from intact families; (b) mixed findings regarding comparisons of psychosocial adjustment between single‐parent and remarried groups; and (c) a pattern of effects related to significant interactions of family type and gender in which males appeared to be favorably affected within the single‐parent configuration, while females were more favorably adjusted within the reconstituted family.