Coping with the Loss of Father: Family Reaction to Death or Divorce.

Nelson, Geoffrey

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ERIC Number: EJ261129

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1982-Mar

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Coping with the Loss of Father: Family Reaction to Death or Divorce.

Nelson, Geoffrey

Journal of Family Issues, v3 n1 p41-60 Mar 1982

Studied the social and emotional adjustment of women and children from single-parent families. Widows and divorcees did not differ significantly from married women on social and emotional adjustment but did report more positive and negative life changes. Children of widows and divorcees reported significantly poorer emotional adjustment. (Author)

Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Cohort Analysis, Coping, Death, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment, Fatherless Family, Females, Psychological Patterns, Social Adjustment, Stress Variables, Widowed

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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