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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2020.18.1.379

A Study on the Psychological Adjustment of Undergraduates: Focusing on the Divorce Status and the Marital Conflict of their Parents  

Han, Young-Sook (Graduate School of Social Culture, Administration & Welfare Dept. of Counseling Psychology, Hannam University)
Yang, Myong-Suk (Dept. of Child Development & Guidance, Hannam University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.18, no.1, 2020 , pp. 379-387 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in psychological adjustment among university students according to their parents' divorce status and their parents' conflict. Specifically, students who have not-divorced parents were subdivided into two groups: those who have with a high degree of conflict and with a low degree of conflict. The results were as follows. First, the degree of the marital conflict from the divorced parents is higher than the one of the marital conflict from the parents not divorced. Second, the group who has the parents with a high level of marital conflict went through the highest difficulties among 3 groups at all variables without the parent-child relationship. Therefore, this study suggests that marital conflict is more closely related to psychological adjustment of children than parental divorce itself.
Keywords
Marital conflict; Divorced parents; Mental health; Couple resilience; Parents-child relationship; self-differentiation;
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