When Marriage Falls: How Does Parental Divorce Affect Teenagers Interpersonal Development?

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.386How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Psychology; parental divorce; teenager; interpersonal development

Abstract

The number of divorces in China steadily increases, along with upheaval that brings children traumatic grief and hardship. The purpose of this study is to explore how parental divorce affects children’s interpersonal development. 194 participants from China responded to the questionnaires. The findings revealed that, when their parents divorce, children will experience fluctuation on personalities that incline to be introverted, withdrawn, and inferior. These psychological changes could render youngsters refused to communicate or irritable and rude to the opposite extreme. Second, teenagers may be led astray and acquire undesirable habits due to the missing role of parental supervision that plays the role model through imitation and interaction. Children have gender disturbance due to a misplaced gender role identification and a lack of social adaptation.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiayuan Xu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - When Marriage Falls: How Does Parental Divorce Affect Teenagers Interpersonal Development?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2132
EP  - 2137
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.386
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.386
ID  - Xu2022
ER  -