Parental divorce and psychological well-being of children

ABSTRACT

In the present study it was demonstrated that parental divorce has negative impact on the Psychological wellbeing of children. It was hypothesized that a] mean score of need for achievement and self-esteem of children of divorced women would be lower than the children of married women and b] mean score of depress mood and aggression would be more in children of divorced women than the children of married women. In order to test these hypotheses CAT was administered on the children [aged 6-12 years] of divorced and married women. The [t] test indicated that the mean score of self-esteem of children of divorced women was significantly lower than the mean score of self-esteem of children of married women. The Mean aggression and depress mood scores were significantly higher in the children of divorced women than the mean aggression and depress mood scores of children of married women. Whereas there was no significant difference in the mean scores of need for achievement of children of both the groups