Attitudes Toward Divorce and Their Relationship With Psychosocial Factors Among Social Work Students |
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| Authors: | Naelys Diaz Olga Molina Thalia MacMillan Lloyd Duran Elizabeth Swart |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work , Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton , Florida , USA ndiaz10@fau.edu;3. School of Social Work , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida , USA;4. Center for Distance Learning , SUNY Empire State College , New York , New York , USA;5. Department of Sociology , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida , USA |
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| Abstract: | This study aimed to explore attitudes toward divorce and their relationship with general satisfaction with life, spiritual beliefs, parental bonding, and depressive symptomatology among a sample of 210 social work students from two different universities in Florida. Results indicated that the majority of students had favorable attitudes toward divorce overall, perceiving divorce as a solution to unhappy marriage. Participants also reported strong feelings regarding marital obligation and the effect of divorce on children and society. Attitudes toward divorce were associated with spiritual beliefs and parental bonding. |
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| Keywords: | divorce psychosocial factors social work students |
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