Annotated Bibliography On Divorce

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My article’s full citation is: Krista M. Soria & Sarah Linder (2014). Parental Divorce and First-Year College Students’ Persistence and Academic Achievement, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 55:2, 103-116. The article’s purpose was to see if having divorced parents would affect a first year college student’s GPA and whether or not it would affect their continuance of education into a second year. The researchers used quantitative studies in order to gain a conclusion to their test. They began by issuing a Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey to all college freshmen at a public university. This is a paper and pencil survey that the researchers used to collect data about their behaviors, goals and values. The exact questions were used by the researchers to then determine what students had divorced parents and what their expectations of college were prior to…show more content…
This article provided evidence for how divorce can be a predictor for future endeavors. One topic that I think would be interesting to research further would be how divorce affects the children’s future relationships, if at all. I would like to know if there is statistical evidence about children with divorced parent’s level of commitment in a relationship, do they commit easier or does it take them longer? My future career is in the accounting field, and while the topic of this article won’t really provide any help, it was interesting to see some statistics I’ve learned in my classes used in a scholarly…show more content…
Soria & Sarah Linder (2014). Parental Divorce and First-Year College Students’ Persistence and Academic Achievement, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 55:2, 103-116. Zanden, J., Crandell, T., & Crandell, C. (2012). Human development (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher

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