Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Relación entre la experiencia de la separación parental y la construcción de un proyecto de vida del joven y la joven universitarios

2007; Pontifical Xavierian University; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

2011-2777

Alicia Durán, Argelia Medina, Nhora Isabel González, Ismael Rolón,

Geography and Environmental Studies in Latin America

This project tries to identify possible relationships between continuation of the parents’ couple relationship or the experience of living a parental divorce, and the definition of professional goals and establishment of couple relationships in two groups of college students. The information was gathered using a demographic survey, two questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Results indicate that parental divorce is a difficult and painful event. Only children of parents that are together have negative ideas about divorce. Parents divorce affects neither career election nor professional plans, given that parents respect and support children’s decisions. All students have had significant couple relationships and have long term plans to form a couple and raise a family, after the satisfaction of economic and academic goals.