TWO FACES 0F DIVORCE

离婚的两张脸研究将从父母的角度来考察离婚的前因后果。该项目有三个主要目标：(1)确定对离婚成本和收益的看法是否与随后的离婚有关，并确定哪些类型的成本和收益(即经济、社会和父母)最受重视；(2)通过从母亲和父亲的角度考察各种幸福领域，扩大我们对与离婚有关的得失的了解；(3)评估父母可以在多大程度上准确评估离婚的后果。该项目具有理论和应用两方面的意义。之前对离婚决定因素的研究表明，许多夫妇在期望离婚会让他们过得更好的情况下选择离婚，而对离婚后果的研究表明，离婚会导致多个领域的幸福感下降。这项研究将关于离婚决定因素的研究和理论与关于离婚后果的研究和理论联系起来，以解决这一难题--重点关注夫妇离婚的动机和对离婚的期望如何与离婚结果相关。它审查了以下方面：(A)离婚的后果是意想不到的；(B)离婚与某些生活领域幸福感的增加有关，这抵消了生活中其他领域的负面影响；以及(C)离婚的不同一方以牺牲彼此的利益为代价。这项分析将使用全国家庭和家庭调查的纵向数据。回归技术被用来检验离婚前预期和随后离婚之间的关系、离婚的后果、离婚前预期关于离婚后果的准确性，以及离婚后果在多大程度上由父母分担。

The Two Faces of Divorce Study will examine the antecedents and consequences of divorce from the perspective of mothers and fathers. The project has three primary objectives: (1) to determine whether perceptions of the costs and benefits of divorce are related to subsequent divorce and to determine what types of costs and benefits (i.e., economic, social, and parental) are given the most weight, (2) to expand our knowledge of the gains and losses associated with divorce by examining a broad variety of areas of well-being from the perspective of both mothers and fathers, and (3) to assess the extent to which mothers and fathers can accurately assess the consequences of divorce. The project has both theoretical and applied significance. Prior research on the determinants of divorce suggests that many couples choose to divorce when they expect to be better off from doing so, while research on the consequences of divorce indicates that divorce leads to declines in well-being in a variety of areas. This study bridges research and theory on the determinants of divorce with research and theory on the consequences of divorce to address this puzzle - focusing on how couples' motivations for- and expectations about divorce are related to divorce outcomes. It examines the extent to which (a) the consequences of divorce are unanticipated, (b) divorce is associated with increases in well-being in some areas of life that counteract negative consequences in other areas of life, and (c) different parties of divorce benefit at the expense of each other. The analysis will use longitudinal data from the National Survey of Families and Households. Regression techniques are used to examine the relationship between pre-divorce expectations and subsequent divorce, the consequences of divorce, the accuracy of pre-divorce expectations about the consequences of divorce, and the extent to which the consequences of divorce are shared between mothers and fathers.