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In the present study, daughters who had lost fathers and whose mothers had not remarried demonstrated greater insecurity and more negative self-evaluations than daughters who had either not lost their fathers or had lost their fathers but their mothers had remarried. Contrary to the findings of Hetherington (1972), neither reason for father loss (i.e., death or divorce) nor age of daughter at time of father loss was found to affect the psychological adjustment of the college-age daughters who served as subjects in this study.
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Young, E.R., Parish, T.S. Impact of father absence during childhood on the psychological adjustment of college females. Sex Roles 3, 217–227 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287611
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