Divorcing and building a new life

Radford, Barbera; Travers‐Gustafson, Dianne; Miller, Connie; L'Archevesque, C I; Furlong, Elizabeth; Norris, Joan

doi:10.1016/s0883-9417(97)80019-2

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“…Women in this study reported the same issues related to adjustment that previous researchers identi ed (Galloway, 1994;Radford et al, 1997;Thiriot & Buckner, 1991). Income continues to be a predictor of adjustment (Garvin et al, 1993;Nelson, 1994;Thabes, 1997).…”

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confidence: 73%

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Women's Reflections on Divorce-- 10 Years Later

Duffy

Thomas

Trayner

2002

Health Care for Women International

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Ten years after divorce 95 women who participated in an earlier study of divorce were asked to reflect on their lives since their divorce. They were mailed a questionnaire to describe demographic data, self-esteem, control, life assessment, and their lives since divorce. Fewer than half remarried and of those who did, 10 divorced a second time. Slightly more women partnered than married. Their overall assessment of their lives was reported positively. However, 25% felt the same or worse than they had 10 years earlier. Income was the only demographic variable correlated with self-esteem, control, and life assessment. Women used a variety of self-care actions to improve their lives and only six women went to professional therapy. Their lives and some of the actions taken are described.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

“…A divorced woman has to rede ne herself. She must explore and discover her place as a single woman in social situations, changing her social life accordingly (Radford et al, 1997). Divorce involves multiple transitions in roles, relationships, situations, and development.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women's Reflections on Divorce-- 10 Years Later

Duffy

Thomas

Trayner

2002

Health Care for Women International

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“…The women's experience of being neglected and treated with derision was striking. Although studies of White divorced women conducted in the 1990s and earlier in the United States mention social stigma being imposed on divorced women, (Radford et al, 1997;Sakraida, 2005), stigma appears to be less important in more recent studies. But social disapproval and prejudice of divorced individuals and their children continue to be important in studies of Korean women's adjustment after divorce in the U.S. and in Korea (Kim, Park, & Choi, 2010;Lee & Bell-Scott, 2009;Whang, 2007;Yang, 1999).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although there is a large body of research on marital dissolution and post-dissolution adjustment, the mechanisms by which people make adjustment have been much less studied (Fasching, 2011;Gregson & Ceynar, 2009). The models in comparison (Guttmann, 1993;Radford et al, 1997) acknowledge the complexity and multidimensionality of the post-divorce transitions but except four-phase staging, dimensions after legal separation were simplified and their sub-stages were not explained. The model of living for the children provides further accounts for the initial five years of transition processes and how these women move through stages and transitions are explained.…”

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confidence: 99%

Living for the Children: Immigrant Korean Mothers' Re-creation of Family after Marital Dissolution

2014

Korean J Adult Nurs

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Purpose: This study was a grounded theory research aimed at generating a substantive theory that accounts for the explanatory social processes in which immigrant Korean single-mother families were engaged in the United States. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 immigrant Korean single mothers who were living with children under 18 years of age at the time of the interviews. Data collection guided by theoretical sampling and concurrent constant comparative analysis of the transcribed data was conducted to identify the core social process. Results: The emerged core social process was "living for the children," which represented the driving process by which these women made transition to their new lives as single-mother families. The major task throughout the entire transition was re-creating their families. The women's transition involved practical and psychological transitions. The practical transition involved three stages: assuring family survival, struggling between the father role and the mother role, and stabilizing. The psychological transition involved becoming strong and settling in with a new supportive network. Conclusion: Study results added to the literature by elaborating the women's emphasis on maternal identity and the resilience-provoking nature of the women's transitions.

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“…Radford et al (1997) found that women experience a final stage during the divorcing process: building a new life. Through the use of in-depth, loosely structured interviews with 31 women who have experienced divorce, this research investigates the changes in identity experienced by divorced women, and the mechanisms that allow those changes to occur.…”

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Finding “Me” Again: Women's Postdivorce Identity Shifts

Gregson

Ceynar

2009

Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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The purpose of this study was to explore women's identity shifts as they navigate their postdivorce lives. We conducted in-depth, loosely structured interviews with 31 women who had been through at least 1 divorce. Interviews included questions about how women experienced life after divorce, specifically addressing changes they made to separate from the marriage and form a postdivorce identity. Patterns emerged regarding the process of identity change in 3 distinct domains: physical appearance, physical surroundings, and marital artifacts. Results are discussed in terms of the interplay between internal and external changes and the retrospective nature of the identity shifts.Women face unique challenges in the aftermath of divorce. Although both partners need to sort out finances, divide possessions, and reconfigure relationships, the act of changing one's marital status signifies a host of other changes that women face more often and more intensely than men. Among other differences, research shows that divorce results in more negative consequences for women than it does for men, particularly with respect to their

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Divorcing and building a new life

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Women's Reflections on Divorce-- 10 Years Later

Women's Reflections on Divorce-- 10 Years Later

Living for the Children: Immigrant Korean Mothers' Re-creation of Family after Marital Dissolution

Finding “Me” Again: Women's Postdivorce Identity Shifts

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