their own weaknesses for women. The greater propensity of women for heart-related
disorders suggests their willingness to cope with difficulties. More often men can seek
help from other people, including friends, psychologists, and doctors. At the same time
greater emotionality and orientation towards relationships can create a closed circle of
problems, especially since "advisers" can be unwittingly interested persons (M. M.
Obozov, 1995) [3,4].
According to U. Kharli (1992), often the failures of men and women in the
construction of the family are caused simply by ignorance of each other's needs. Since
the needs of men and women are so different, it is not surprising that people are difficult
to adapt to marital life [6].
Our study included the study of individual psychological characteristics of
divorced women. The sample consisted of 104 divorced women who asthenelied for
counseling and assistance to a psychologist. The control group consisted of 126 women
from normative families who believed that they had no special family problems and
did not asthenely to the psychologist himself. By the time of collection, the age of the
subjects was in the range from 29 to 56 years.
With divorced women and women in a prosperous marriage a psychological
examination was conducted using test methods: a 16PF questionnaire by R. B. Kettell,
a way out of difficult life situations (R. S. Nemov), an index of life style (diagnosis of
frequency of use and severity of mechanisms of psychological protection) (R. Plutchik,
H. Kellerman, H.Conte, adaptation L. I. Vasserman, O. F. Yeryshev, Ye. B. Klubova).
The questionnaire made it possible to find out that in most cases wife was the
initiator of divorce (65%), twice less when the divorce was demanded by a man
(27.5%). A very small amount of a joint decision regarding divorce is 5%. 15% of the
respondents called alcoholism or her husband's addiction to narcotic drugs the reason
of divorce. Other reasons for divorce: husband's betrayal (15%), different views on life
and plans for the future (15%), physical and psychological violence (12.5%), husband
left for another woman (12.5%), disastheneointment, lack of understanding (12.5%),
different views on the upbringing of the child (7.5%), financial problems (7.5%), the
husband left in a difficult life situation (7.5%), lack of sexual relations (5%), wife left
for another man (2.5%).
Most of the interviewed women after a divorce have health problems (72.5%),
have no problems at all – 27.5%. The most common problems are gynecology and
urogenital system (20%), gastrointestinal tract (17.5%), cardiovascular system (12.5%)
and lumbar (12.5). Other health problems: blurred vision (10%), pressure disturbance
(10%), nervous breakdown (7.5%), overweight (5%), cancer (5%), thyroid problems
(5 %), hearing impairment (2.5%), breathing problems (2.5%), headache and insomnia
(2.5%).
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