Influence Of Parental Divorce On The Psychological Adjustment Of Adolescent Students In South West Ethiopia

Abstract

Background: is the main focus of interest. psychological adjustment of adolescents. Method: across three domains of self on 120 adolescents of both sex (60 from each study groups) attending 10+ Jimma, Agaro and Mizan town preparatory schools. Socio questionnaires assessing the psychological adjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress) of adolescents were recorded. Results: statistical measures (SPSS) of correlation and t independent sample t mean in the psychological measure of depression ( and stress ( family. Discussion: psychological to adolescents from intact family, suggesting that differences can be attributed to parental divorc its accompanying socio Copyright©2017, Fitsume Berhanu and Mekuria Abebe permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. INTRODUCTION Perhaps the most common and potentially destructive crisis that many children and adolescents face is the divorce of their parents. Parents for one or another reason get divorced, but the often effect of the divorce on children is unquantifiable destructive, economically, psychologically and socially