Effect of Infidelity, Initiator Status, and Spiritual Well-Being on Men’s Divorce Adjustment

Steiner, Lisa M.; Durand, Sabrina; Groves, Dawn; Rozzell, Charletta

doi:10.1080/10502556.2014.996050

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“…The widespread impact of divorce experiences revealed by the study includes personal, social, relational and cultural factors (Amato, 2010;Steiner et al, 2015). What this demonstrates is that the divorce experience is both internal and external to the individual.…”

Section: Experiencing Painmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…The theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism offers a better understanding than do general stress theories (Amato, 2010) of how individuals view and understand marriage and divorce. Although studies of post-divorce adjustment outcomes have been criticised for focusing exclusively on negative outcomes (Ahrons, 1994;Barber & Eccles, 1992;Halford & Sweeper, 2013;Hetherington & Kelly, 2002), more recent studies have reported positive outcomes (Amato 2010;Gaffal, 2010;Kulik & Kasa, 2014;Steiner et al, 2015). This research indicates that divorce stress tends mostly to occur before the actual divorce, although it is temporary and may be accompanied by positive outcomes (Amato, 2010).…”

Section: Experiencing Painmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The attitude of participants towards divorce has been reported frequently in the divorce literature as a contributing factor to the adjustment process (Baum, 2003;Lin & Raghubir, 2005;Locker et al, 2010;Steiner et al, 2015;Waite & Gallagher, 2002). Some of the participants in the present study, who indicated that they were committed to their marriages, struggled with adjusting to divorce.…”

Section: Attitude Towards Divorcementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Divorce has been rated as one of the most stressful life experiences, second only to death, with a pervasive impact on the life situation of those who experience it (Amato, 2010;Gähler, 2006;Steiner, Durand, Groves, & Rozzell, 2015). Bearing this in mind, many studies on divorce begin with the assumption that it is a stressful life transition to which individuals must adjust (Amato, 2000;Amato, 2010;Hawkins & Fackrell, 2009;Webb et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies dealing with experience of, action in, and adjustment to divorce have focused mainly on women, on the assumption that women experience more difficulties than men in resuming a routine life after divorce (Amato, 2010;Locker, McIntosh, Hackney, Wilson, & Wiegand, 2010). Recent research findings have revealed that men also have considerable difficulty adjusting to divorce, and many develop physical and psychological health symptoms (Kulik & Kasa, 2014;Steiner et al, 2015). Due to the divorce, men usually experience a transition from the status of a full-time father to the status of a custodial father (Kulik & Kasa, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Men don’t cry”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Black South African Men’s Experience of Divorce

Muchena

Howcroft

Stroud

2018

Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

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The decision to divorce marks a turning point for every individual involved. It can be viewed as more than just a legal process. From a psychological perspective, it does not matter who initiated the divorce, since it always comes with emotional ramifications for all those involved. Statistically, there is a high rate of divorce in South Africa and there have been significant shifts in trends over time. While black South African men's experience of divorce has been relatively neglected in the research on divorce, it is important for understanding contemporary social arrangements and processes, and, in particular, for broadening the understanding of black South African men's lives. How black South African men describe their experience and respond to marital dissolution may point to their positions in the gender-structured community as well as illuminate how they interpret the nature of social practice, marriage, divorce and their position in society. The aim of the research reported on in this paper was to explore black South African men's experience of divorce. The theoretical framework underpinning this qualitative study was broadly that of Symbolic Interactionism, with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) employed as both the research design and data analytic theory and process. The eight participants were volunteers who were recruited purposively. In keeping with IPA guidelines, data-collection proceeded by means of biographical questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The emerging themes were grouped into three superordinate themes, namely, perceptions of divorce, social support, and experiencing of pain. Each superordinate theme had corresponding subordinate themes and experiential claims. Weed's (2008) recommendations for the interpretative synthesis of interview data were applied.

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Section: Experiencing Painmentioning

confidence: 74%