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Social Psychology and Society
2015. Vol. 6, no. 3, 30–45
doi:10.17759/sps.2015060303
ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052 (online)

Divorce in Russian Sociological and Social Psychological Research on Family Relationships

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I.S. Kletsina

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Abstract

The article presents social psychоlogical analysis of publications that focus on divorce situations in official marriages and explore its causes and consequences both for spouses and children. It is argued that the key factor in separation is a socio-psychological phenomenon called 'unconstructive marital relationships'. The partnership model described in the article, on the contrary, may serve as a normative basis contributing to the stabilization of marital relationships. While most publications conceptualize divorce as a collapse and split of family relationship, the article suggests interpreting divorces rather as a transformation stage in spousal and parentchild relationships.

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Keywords: divorce in the practice of family relationship, marital relationship, partnership model of marital relations, unconstructive marital relationships, parent-child relationships

Journal rubric: Theoretical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2015060303

For citation: Kletsina I.S. Divorce in Russian Sociological and Social Psychological Research on Family Relationships . Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2015. Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 30–45. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2015060303. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Irina S. Kletsina, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-2727, e-mail: irinaklyotsina@mail.ru

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