Divorced Fathers Describe Their Former Wives: Devaluation and Contrast

This paper investigates the devaluation of women by their former husbands in a sample of sixty-one divorced fathers who had recently remarried. On the Adjective Check List (ACL) these husbands describe their former wives in highly negative and deviant terms as compared with the ACL norms and with th...

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Published in:Journal of divorce & remarriage 1991-01, Vol.14 (3-4), p.61-88
Main Author: Schuldberg, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior. Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Finance
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human relations
Interpersonal communication
Money markets
Personal relationships
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social psychology
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Summary:This paper investigates the devaluation of women by their former husbands in a sample of sixty-one divorced fathers who had recently remarried. On the Adjective Check List (ACL) these husbands describe their former wives in highly negative and deviant terms as compared with the ACL norms and with their descriptions of themselves and the current partner. Devaluation of the former wife is not accompanied by idealization of either the present wife or the husbands' descriptions of themselves; a negative view of the former wife is slightly correlated with husbands' low self-esteem. There was a marked contrast between husbands' ACL descriptions of present and former wives on traits concerning interpersonal power, expressiveness, and control of aggression.
ISSN:1050-2556
2837-5300
1540-4811
2837-5319
DOI:10.1300/J087v14n03_05