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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
[The birth of a restructured family: qualitative analysis of discourse between adolescents]
Marie-Christine Saint-Jacques1, Rachel Lépine, Claudine Parent
1Université Laval.
Abstract:
This paper discusses a period in the life of a stepfamily that has not been widely studied until now: the period immediately preceding and immediately following the move towards a blended family. This period is studied from the viewpoint of adolescents living through it. Here, the blending of a family is examined as a family transition; its "paranormative" character brings up issues that pertain especially to the children's adjustment. Twenty-six semistructured interviews were carried out with adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17. Among the main results was the observation that 2 events in particular mark this transition: the announcement of future cohabitation and the cohabitation itself.
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