Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate post-divorce challenges and coping mechanisms of single mothers from differing socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds. Participants of the study were 125 divorced women who had not remarried and had at least one child. Proceeding calculation of descriptive statistic on the Scale for Vulnerability to Issues and Scale for Attitudes toward Problem Solving, either independent t-test or one-way analysis of variance was used depending on the number of categories of socio-economic and socio-demographic variables. Results showed that younger women had higher means on scales for vulnerability and problem solving attitudes. Women with elementary education scored higher on the vulnerability scale than those with higher education.