Protective factors in children's adjustment to divorce.

• Other Authors: Gu, Minmin.
• Format: Others
• Language: English; Chinese
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Children of divorced parents; Children of divorced parents > China
• Online Access: http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893067; http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-325787

Gu Minmin. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-113). === Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendices also in Chinese. === Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 === Divorce in China --- p.3 === "Children's adjustment to divorce in the Mainland, China" --- p.5 === Research questions --- p.6 === Organization of the thesis --- p.7 === Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.8 === Research on children's divorce adjustment in China --- p.8 === Research on children's divorce adjustment in the West --- p.13 === Resilience perspective in children's divorce adjustment --- p.16 === Summary --- p.30 === Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK --- p.31 === Resilience perspective as the guiding perspective --- p.31 === Children's divorce adjustment as conceptualized by resilience perspective --- p.31 === Relevant issues --- p.33 === Summary --- p.35 === Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- METHODOLOGY --- p.37 === Qualitative approach --- p.37 === Sample --- p.38 === Data collection --- p.43 === Data analysis --- p.45 === Procedures to ensure credibility of the research --- p.46 === Ethical issues in the research --- p.48 === Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- THE SEVEN LIFE STORIES --- p.49 === Xiao Jun --- p.49 === Xiao Yin --- p.52 === Xiao Fang --- p.54 === An Jing --- p.57 === Yan Yan --- p.60 === Xiao Zhong --- p.64 === Jiong Jiong --- p.68 === Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- COMMON PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND PROTECTIVE MECHANISMS --- p.73 === Common protective factors --- p.73 === Protective mechanisms: How protective factors work with risk factors --- p.81 === Summary --- p.85 === Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN: --- DISCUSSION --- p.86 === Contextual protective factors: resources and limitations --- p.86 === Unresolved risk factor: the inadequacy of the legal system --- p.90 === Chapter CHAPTER EIGHT: --- RECOMMNEDATIONS --- p.92 === Recommendations and interventions at ideological level --- p.92 === Recommendations and interventions at a structural and policy level --- p.95 === Recommendations and interventions at individual and family levels --- p.98 === Recommendations at the research level --- p.100 === REFERENCES --- p.103 === APPENDICES --- p.114