Divorce Support Groups

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personal capital and adjustment to divorce after attending divorce support groups. Independent variables were education, income, level of attachment and counselling with important social network groups, and having a new partner or not. The findings are discussed in relation to Bourdieu's theory. The assumption was that personal captial influences the extent participants benefit from the participation. Subjects who were highly educated and who were least attached to network groups, benefited more from the participation than those who were lower educated and less attached. Regarding females, those who had higher incomes and who counselled with social network groups to a high extent benefited more than their counterparts. Males who had new partners were better adjusted after group participation than the single ones.

Key Words:

• Adjustment to divorce
• personal captial
• cultural capital
• gender differences
• Bourdieu