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Divorce has long been viewed as a single phenomenon affecting two individuals without considering the framework conditions in which it occurs. Due to the increase of divorce rates in the past decades researchers have changed their perspective and have concentrated on the view of divorce as a personal experience that is greatly affected by the socials and economic environment. The aim of this thesis is to investigate divorce that has become a mass phenomenon in our present society. The assumption is that in order to understand the grounds for divorce and its consequences, we have to view divorce as a phenomenon that occurs at the intersection of personal, socio-economic and legal factors. Family disputes involve persons who have interdependent and continued relati- ships and arise in a context of distressing emotions. Separation and divorce affect all the members of the family, especially children. The study presents a comprehensive analysis of divorce as a psychological process that is situated within a social and a legal context. It presents a comprehensive view of divorce as a psychosocial, economic and legal phenomenon and contains a review of the research literature about divorce and its consequences for parents and children. Moreover, it describes divorce by proposing conceptual frames and explanatory models.
List of contents
Grounds for Divorce.- Factors Influencing Ex-spouses' Adjustment to Divorce.- Post-divorce Adjustment of Children and Adolescents.- Characteristics and Problems of Custody Arrangements.- Divorce Mediation.
About the author
Mag. Margit Gaffal, geb. in Linz (Österreich), studierte Anglistik und Philosophie, Pädagogik und Psychologie an der Paris Lodron Universitát Salzburg (Osterreich). Sie war Lektorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Cardiff University, School of European Studies in Wales (Großbritannien) und an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz in Österreich. Sie unterrichtete an einer Handelsakademie sowie an einer Internationalen Schule. Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind: Zweitspracherwerb und mehrsprachiger Wissenserwerb, Fachsprache Recht und Wirtschaft, Probleme der Übersetzbarkeit von Fachtermini, interkulturelle Linguistik und soziale Kompetenz.
Summary
Divorce has long been viewed as a single phenomenon affecting two individuals without considering the framework conditions in which it occurs. Due to the increase of divorce rates in the past decades researchers have changed their perspective and have concentrated on the view of divorce as a personal experience that is greatly affected by the socials and economic environment. The aim of this thesis is to investigate divorce that has become a mass phenomenon in our present society. The assumption is that in order to understand the grounds for divorce and its consequences, we have to view divorce as a phenomenon that occurs at the intersection of personal, socio-economic and legal factors. Family disputes involve persons who have interdependent and continued relati- ships and arise in a context of distressing emotions. Separation and divorce affect all the members of the family, especially children. The study presents a comprehensive analysis of divorce as a psychological process that is situated within a social and a legal context. It presents a comprehensive view of divorce as a psychosocial, economic and legal phenomenon and contains a review of the research literature about divorce and its consequences for parents and children. Moreover, it describes divorce by proposing conceptual frames and explanatory models.
