The Role of Social Network Supports of Italian Parents and Children in Their Adjustment to Separation and Divorce

D’Abate, Dominic A.

doi:10.1300/j087v20n01_09

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“…Yet, divorce may not always be accompanied by network decline. Some studies on network change found that growth in the personal network takes place after the divorce (D'Abate, 1993;Hughes, Good, & Candell, 1993). Albeck and Kaydar (2002) reported an increased availability of friends a few years after the divorce and suggested the existence of a period of 'blossoming' of the network.…”

Section: Types Of Change In Network Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

Network dynamics in the long-term period after divorce

Terhell

Groenou²,

Tilburg

2004

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

126

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This study first identified types of change in the size of the personal network over a period of 12 years following divorce. Second, differences in network change were explained by taking into account divorce characteristics, personal capacities, and structural conditions. Personal interviews were conducted in three waves of a 12-year longitudinal study with 40 men and 64 women who divorced in 1987 or 1988. Most divorcees experienced network losses shortly after the divorce and in half of the cases these losses were not compensated for in the later years after divorce. For some, divorce brought merely network gains, albeit in the longer term. Personal capacities and structural conditions did not differ significantly across participants in different types of network change. Characteristics of the divorce (attitude toward divorce and conflicts with the ex-partner after divorce) partly explained differences in network change after divorce.

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Section: Types Of Change In Network Sizementioning

confidence: 99%