Abstract
A parental divorce is a stressful event for children. Several studies show that children from broken - home family have complex problems. However, some children from broken - home family are found to be able to have a good achievement and able to grow to be positive. They are able to build resilience in facing their family problems. Th e purpose of study was to understand how a child from broken homes achieves resilience. A phenomenolog y study was used in this study. Interviews and observations were used to collect data. The subject was a 25-year-old female. T he resilience framework which focuses on socio-ecological context was used to understand how the subject achieved the resilience. The parents of the subject divorced when the subject was four years old, then subject’s mother remarried three times. The subject had stressors related to open conflict between her mother and father, traumatic experience through witnessing physical abuse of step father, lack of openness in communication with mother, and unsupportive friends. In this case, t he resilience process began when the subject was already young adult. The subject’s understanding could help her in accepting and coping the problem actively. It is supported by subject’s internal characteristics including religiosity , cognitive, and social competenc ies which developed as the subject grown up. The openness in communication which get reciprocity from the significant other around the subject has a role in achieving resilience. Therefore, the lesson learned from this research are resilience can be achieved if the individual who exposured the stressors coped the problem actively. It is supported by both of internal and external resilience factors which include of : (1) acceptance, (2) religiosity, (3) cognitive ability , (4) social competenc ies, and ( 5 ) social support . In this case, mature age seemed to be an important factor in achieving resilience since it reflect maturity in those factors cited previously.
Highlights
A parental divorce is a stressful event in children
The finding in this research is consistent with Resilience Framework from Kumpfer (2002) that resilience of a child from broken-home family can be explained by six major predictors of resilience process: (1) stressor or challenge, (2) environmental context, (3) person-environment interactional process, (4) internal selfcharacteristics, (5) resilience processes, and (6) positive outcomes
There is a new finding that maturity in age and internal characteristics of subject are served as important factors in this case
Summary
A parental divorce is a stressful event in children. Divorce give a great stress into the lives of adults and children (Amato& Keith, 1990; Amato, 2014). Mackay (2005) revealed that after separation, most children live in the primary custody of one parent. Children live with her mother, so that the significant problem is the absence of their father. It is not just the father’s presence in the home that is important, it is his presence in a child’s life. Amato and Cheadle (2005) revealed that children with divorce parents tend to obtain lower http://ijasos.ocerintjournals.org 1024 It is not just the father’s presence in the home that is important, it is his presence in a child’s life. Amato and Cheadle (2005) revealed that children with divorce parents tend to obtain lower http://ijasos.ocerintjournals.org 1024
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