Identity relevance and disruption as predictors of psychological distress for widowed and divorced women

Article Abstract:

Widowhood is psychologically more distressing than divorce as widows assign greater relevance to their identities as married persons, and thus experience greater disruption in their own identities. The widows evaluate their ex-husbands more positively than divorced women. In both widowed and divorced women, higher relevance of the former marital identity enhances identity disruption. Identity disruption is positively related to psychological distress. Widows show more rapid improvement than the divorced. Increases in social support increases psychological distress only for the divorced women.

Research, Married people, Widows, Divorced women

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Social mobility across three generations

Article Abstract:

The upward mobility rate of offspring decreases across three generations of family members while the occupational achievements increase. There is a reduction in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status with each new generation. In each generation, women experience the same extent of occupational discrimination which negatively affects their occupational and social mobility.

Analysis, Social mobility, Occupational mobility

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Family structure and children's success: a comparison of widowed and divorced single-mother families

Article Abstract:

The impact on children of single motherhood produced by divorce is compared with the impact of single motherhood resulting from the death of the father. The achievements of children from widowed single-mother families are much higher than those of children from divorced single-mother families.

Children, Single parents, Children of single parents

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