FAMILY TRANSFORMATION IN THE COURSE OF PARENTAL DIVORCE

我们正在寻求资金，以转录、编码和分析一项研究的数据 父母离婚对孩子的影响。103个家庭 在父母分居后八个月内于1981-82年度参与；这些 同样的家庭在1982-83年间再次出现，一年后 最初的参与。我们的前提是儿童的适应能力 在这一过渡期内，可以通过理解 他们的家庭系统运作的质量；此外，我们认为 调整也将发生变化。因此，我们收集到的信息表明 将使我们能够描述这两个家庭中的每一个 离职后时间：(A)他们满足以下条件的能力 家庭的主要功能(即，提供物质资源， 身体保护、凝聚力、规律性、养成和陪伴)， (B)它们的互动模式(即，角色边界模糊、三分相 (C)其他人的心理调整 家庭成员。儿童适应本身的特点将是 行为问题、情绪调整、同伴关系、学校条件 表现和身体健康。一般说来，我们假设家庭 它们满足了它们的主要功能，而不是 致病的相互作用模式，包括调整良好的家庭 成员将有较少表现出负面影响的孩子 分离；这些关系通常应该在两个 分居后时期。然而，一个必然的假设是，一些人 家庭和个人特征将比其他特征更重要 而哪些是最重要的可能会从一个时期改变到 下一首。因此，我们的数据分析方法将是评估 在每次评估时预测因素和结果之间的关系， 然后研究家庭系统运作的方式 对儿童适应的同时和长期影响。

We are seeking funding to transcribe, code, and analyze data from a study to how parental divorce affects children. One hundred and three families participated in 1981-82 within eight months of parental separation; these same families are being seen again during 1982-83, one year after their initial participation. Our premise has been that children's adjustment during this transition period can best be predicted by understanding the qualilty of their family system functioning; furthermore, we believe adjustment will change too. Accordingly, we have gathered information that will allow us to describe the family units at each of the two post-separation times in terms of (a) their ability to satisfy several primary functions of a family (i.e., provision of material resources, physical protection, cohesion, regularity, nurturance, and companionship), (b) their interaction patterns (i.e., role boundary ambiguity, triadic tension, and enmeshment), and (c) the psychological adjustment of other family members. Children's adjustment itself will be characterized in terms of behavior problems, emotional adjustment, peer relations, school performance, and physical health. In general, we presume that families that satisfy their primary functions, that are not characterized by pathogenic interaction patterns, and that include well-adjusted family members will have children who show fewer negative effects of the separation; these relationships should generally hold true at both post-separation periods. However, a corollary presumption is that some family and individual characteristics will be more important that others and that which ones are most important may change from one period to the next. Consequently, our approach to data analysis will be to assess relationships between predictors and outcomes at each time of assessment, then to examine the ways in which family system functioning has both concurrent and long-term effects on children's adjustment.