Coping with Family Transitions: Winners, Losers, and Survivors.

Hetherington, E. Mavis

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ERIC Number: EJ387597

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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Coping with Family Transitions: Winners, Losers, and Survivors.

Hetherington, E. Mavis

Child Development, v60 n1 p1-14 Feb 1989

Discusses results of a longitudinal study of effects of divorce and remarriage on children's adjustment. Results suggest that individual characteristics play an important role in either protecting children from negative consequences associated with their parents' marital transitions or in making children vulnerable to such consequences. (RJC)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Divorce, Family Life, Family Relationship, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Competence, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Traits, Remarriage, Sex Differences, Stepfamily, Stress Variables

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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