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Divorced Yet Still Together: Ongoing Personal Relationship and Coparenting Among Divorced Parents |
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| Authors: | M Selenga Gürmen Scott C Huff Edna Brown Terri L Orbuch Kira S Birditt |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey;2. Discovery Ranch for Girls, West Cedar City, Utah, USA;3. Human Development and Family Studies, College of Liberal Arts &4. Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA;5. The Life Course Development Program, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA;6. Department of Sociology, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA |
| Abstract: | This study examined the ongoing personal and emotional involvement between former spouses and its association with perceptions of the quality of the coparenting relationship. Dyadic analysis of 54 formerly married couples revealed that both men and women rate their coparenting relationship as better when they also report ongoing personal and emotional involvement with their former spouse. Furthermore, when men reported ongoing involvement, their former wives reported better coparenting. The opposite effect was not found. This pattern held for both Black Americans and White Americans. Clinical implications of the findings of this study are also discussed. |
| Keywords: | Coparenting divorce dyadic analysis gender separation |