Maternal perception of socioemotional adjustment in preschool children: Comparison between intact and separated families with high and low levels of marital adjustment
Authors
Tania Donoso N.
Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Chile
The perception of mothers toward their preschool children as related to their socioemotional and behavioral adjustment was explored in 77 families using the IPCS scale: a) 21 divorced mothers living through their critical period (FS), b) 45 intact families with levels of marital adjustment (FIa), and c) 11 intact families with marital interparental conflict (FIb). Significant differences were found between FS and FIa children in general socioemotional adjustment, aggression, withdrawal, immaturity, old behavior, anxiety and low self-image. No significant differences were found in any of the variables between children from FS and FIb groups, or between children from FIb and FIa groups. Socioemotional/behavioral development of preschool children experience the impact on parental divorce and the development of children from well-adjusted intact families or from intact families with marital conflict in discussed.
Keywords:
Preschool children, divorce and marital conflict, socioemotional/behavioral adjustment
Donoso N., T., & Villegas T., M. I. (2000). Maternal perception of socioemotional adjustment in preschool children: Comparison between intact and separated families with high and low levels of marital adjustment. Revista De Psicología, 9(1), Pág. 29–44. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2000.18544
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