Peculiarities of perception of parents’ divorce and attitude towards parents’ girls in emerging adulthood

Abstract

This article presents the results of empirical studies of what distinctive features of parents’ divorce perception and attitude towards their parents and themselves girls in emerging adulthood have. Two groups of girls of emerging adulthood were surveyed: those who experienced their parents’ divorce in their childhood and adolescence (n=45) and those from two-parent families (n=30). A specially developed half-structured interview, «Family Sociogram», Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) and Colour Relationship were used in the study. The study showed statistically relevant differences between perception of girls from divorced families of their parents’ attitude towards them during both the period before the divorce and the period after it. The article describes the dynamics of the structural distinctions of parent families and the system of domestic relationships between girls from divorced and two-parent families. Also, the article characterizes what concepts of their own future families girls from divorced and two-parent families have. In these two groups of girls, the peculiarities of the motivational and semantic field are discovered.

Keywords

• divorce
• perception of parents’ divorce
• parent-child relationship in divorce
• internal image of divorce
• girls in emerging adulthood