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Separation and loss: A study on the impact of divorce

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Araújo, Janaina Andrade Tenório
Lima, Albenise de Oliveira

Abstract / Description

This article emerged starting of a search that had as aimed to understand the feelings that emerge in men and women when they lose marital bond. It was carried under a qualitative basis and counted on the participation of three men and four women, all divorced. The tool used was the semi-structured interview and the collected data was submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis. This analysis led to the conception of two categories: the emerging emotions and feelings in the loss context due to the divorce and the repercussions of such loss about the personal identity. The results indicated that searching and establishing a new affective bond was a strategy used by the participants involved in the study, in order to strengthen and support the resignification of their personal identity. The majority of the interviewees earned such resignification by becoming independent and capable of developing their own potentialities. About the feelings and emotions lived through the critical period of separation; they ranged from “happiness and peace” to “failure and sadness”.

Keyword(s)

marital bond separation marital identity marriage

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Date of first publication

2016-11-15

Journal title

Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships

Volume

10

Issue

supp1

Page numbers

3–9

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

Publication status

publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Citation

Araújo, J. A. T., & Lima, A. d. O. (2016). Separation and loss: A study on the impact of divorce. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(supp1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.236
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Araújo, Janaina Andrade Tenório
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Lima, Albenise de Oliveira
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-12-05T08:44:17Z
  • Made available on
    2018-12-05T08:44:17Z
  • Date of first publication
    2016-11-15
  • Abstract / Description
    This article emerged starting of a search that had as aimed to understand the feelings that emerge in men and women when they lose marital bond. It was carried under a qualitative basis and counted on the participation of three men and four women, all divorced. The tool used was the semi-structured interview and the collected data was submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis. This analysis led to the conception of two categories: the emerging emotions and feelings in the loss context due to the divorce and the repercussions of such loss about the personal identity. The results indicated that searching and establishing a new affective bond was a strategy used by the participants involved in the study, in order to strengthen and support the resignification of their personal identity. The majority of the interviewees earned such resignification by becoming independent and capable of developing their own potentialities. About the feelings and emotions lived through the critical period of separation; they ranged from “happiness and peace” to “failure and sadness”.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Araújo, J. A. T., & Lima, A. d. O. (2016). Separation and loss: A study on the impact of divorce. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(supp1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.236
    en_US
  • ISSN
    1981-6472
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1751
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2117
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10isupp1.236
  • Keyword(s)
    marital bond
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  • Keyword(s)
    separation
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    marital identity
    en_US
  • Keyword(s)
    marriage
    en_US
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Separation and loss: A study on the impact of divorce
    en_US
  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    supp1
  • Journal title
    Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
  • Page numbers
    3–9
  • Volume
    10
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