RT Journal Article
T1 What and how much do children lose in academic settings owing to parental separation?
A1 Corrás Vázquez, Tania
A1 Seijo Martínez, Dolores
A1 Fariña Rivera, Francisca
A1 Novo Pérez, Mercedes
A1 Arce Fernández, Ramón
A1 González Cabanach, Ramón
K1 Parental separation
K1 School (mal)adjustment
K1 Aversion to learning
K1 Aversion to teachers
K1 School (dis)satisfaction
K1 Indiscipline
AB The literature has firmly established an association between parental separation and school failure. Nevertheless, parental separation does not affect academic aptitudes. Thus, mediators explain such relationship. A field study was designed to identify and quantify damage in the mediating variables between parental separation and school failure (i.e., external school adjustment, aversion to institution, aversion to learning, aversion to instruction, aversion to teachers, indiscipline). A total of 196 children, classified into three age cohorts: 109 in level 1 (from 8 to 11 years), 46 in level 2 (from 12 to 14 years), and 41 in level 3 (15 or more years), were assessed in school adjustment and in underlying dimensions of school (mal)adjustment. The results showed significant effects of parental separation in school adjustment and in the underlying dimensions to maladjustment in the three classification levels. The magnitude of damage increased with age, i.e., small in level 1, moderate in 2, and large in 3. Damage in all the sub-dimensions underlying school (mal)adjustment was quantified. The implications of the results for the design and implementation of prevention and intervention programs for children from separated parents are discussed
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22158
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22158
LA eng
NO Corrás T, Seijo D, Fariña F, Novo M, Arce R and Cabanach RG (2017) What and How Much Do Children Lose in Academic Settings Owing to Parental Separation? Front. Psychol. 8:1545. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01545
NO This research has been sponsored by a grant of the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria of the Xunta de Galicia (PGC2014/022) and by a grant of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (PSI2014-53085-R)
DS Minerva
RD 25 abr 2026