| Publication |
| Author(s) | Nelson, G. |
| Title | Moderators of Womens and Childrens Adjustment Following Parental Divorce. |
| Source | Journal of Divorce, 1981, Vol. 4, 71 - 83 |
| DOI | DOI: 10.1300/J279v04n03_05 |
| Investigation |
| Public | Recently divorced women, Manitoba, USA, 1978 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Not available |
| | Non-probability chunk sample using legal records of the local divorce court.
The following inclusion criteria were specified a priori :
1) the family must consist of a mother who has been married only once and
whose children all fell in the age range of 4 to 14 years old.
2) the women must have been permanently separated from between 5 and 25
months and must not have lived with a man under common law since the
separation.
Through the divorce court records, 106 divorced families were identified who met the inclusion criteria.
15 divorced families meeting the inclusion criteria were selected for study. There were 16 girls, with an average age of 9.8 years, and 15 boys, with an average age of 8.7 years, in the selected sample. The average age of the divorcees was 31.2 years, and they had been separated from their ex-husbands on the average for 16.5 months. All of the divorced families were white, and most of the divorcees (80%) were employed. All divorcees lived alone with their children. The group was representative of total population.
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| Respondents N = | 15 |
| Non Response | 56% |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| | Mailed questionnaire and focused interview |
| Happiness measure(s) used |