Abstract:
The purpose of this study was a recognition of the level of self-acceptance of adolescents (boy s and girls) from broken homes by divorce. There were only a few students. A group of 75 pers¬ons (R) was tested and compared with a group of78 persons at the same age from intact families (P). The Q - sort technique has been applied as an instrument to establish the level of self-acceptance. The following hypotheses were tested: (I) It is possible that the youth from broken homes accept themselves less than those from intact families; (2) It is possible that the girls accept themselves more than the boys; (3) The children who experienced the parents' divorce in the first period of their life up to the preschool years and in adolescence esteem themselves more than the youth who experienced the divorce in the early school years. The findings supported only the first hypothesis suggesting that the children from intact families esteem themselves more than the youth from divorced families. Moreover, parental loss seems to be the major contributor to children's difficulties in self-esteem area.
