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 Volume 9, Issue 3 (March 2022), Pages: 65-70

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Effects of family disintegration on children later depression

 Author(s): Hassan Maajeeny *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Special Education, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-0459

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.03.008

 Abstract:

Studies examining the effects of marital dissolution on children's welfare have repeatedly found that children of separated parents perform worse on several well-being parameters than those from intact households. Depression is highly represented in the health care system among children and older offspring of divorced parents. This study utilizes the double ABCX model to examine the relationship between divorce and depression. The goal of the study was to see if divorce is a sound predictor of depression. Divorce was shown to only explain a modest portion of the variation in depression ( . This level of variation suggests that other than divorce, various additional variables have a role in depression. The study closes with the indication that if additional moderating variables such as the child's maturity and availability of household resources before and after dissolution were encompassed in the analysis, divorce would become a stronger risk factor for depression. Family disharmony may be linked to a higher incidence of severe depressive illness in children of divorced parents. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Children, Depression, Divorce, Effect, Family, Parenting, Separation

 Article History: Received 17 October 2021, Received in revised form 3 January 2022, Accepted 3 January 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Maajeeny H (2022). Effects of family disintegration on children later depression. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(3): 65-70

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