A Study On The Self-adjustment Defined By The Adolescents From Divorced Single-parent Families

With the changes of modern society and the diversity of lifestyle, family which is the basic unit of society, are increasingly showing a different form. In recent years, China's divorce rate keeps high, divorced single-parent families have gradually been recognized. Children in that family are innocent individuals, but their rights are often neglected, and be marked "problem child" by others. It's gratifying that the subject status and rights of single children are getting increasingly concerned in recent years.The study reviews their life course with six children from divorced single-parent families taking a qualitative approach. This study focuses on the life story during the course from parents conflicting period to parents divorced and to single-parent family life, dynamically describes and displays the adjustment they have done in the process. The author analyzes their feelings and understanding of the divorce, problems and challenges faced, self-regulation and environmental change, and their own judgment on their adjustment. The study interprets their adjustment at the conclusion part. The findings is that their self-adjustment on the one hand has a clear age characteristics, on the other hand it can be seen as a positive adjustment and negative adjustment in two ways; besides, their self-adjustment is influenced by their interpretation of parents' divorce, available self-resources and social support, mass media and so on, and the resources systems in their self-adjustment process, including the individual's own resources, social support and material resources in three aspects. Finally, the author explains the self-adjustment of single-parent children in the resilience perspective, and makes theoretical reflection. This study aims to demonstrate the role of subjectivity, and to demonstrate their unremitting efforts to shape their own lives during the conflict situations. The author aims to compensate for the disadvantages of orientation bias and perspective in early studies, and provides a reference for the family and school education through the display of cases, and also to make importance of the children's knowledge creation in the social knowledge system.