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Previous research has identified Emotional Separation and Personal Control as two sets of home leaving indicators that are associated, respectively with relatively troubled and relatively untroubled parent-adolescent separation. As expected, among late adolescent males, parental divorce was highly related to endorsement of Emotional Separation as an important composite indicator of having left home. For females, being a firstborn was associated with endorsing Personal Control as an important composite indicator of home-leaving. Findings were interpreted as supporting previous research which has indicated that males experience more adjustment problems after parental divorce than females.
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Received Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Current research interests are parent-adolescent separation and perceptions of loneliness.
Received Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Current research interests are adolescent-parent separation and evaluation research.
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Moore, D., Hotch, D.F. Parent-adolescent separation: The role of parental divorce. J Youth Adolescence 11, 115–119 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01834707
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