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According to a new study by University of Warwick researchers, university students are far less affected by the divorce of their parents.
The research was conducted by economists at the University of Warwick and focuses on the productivity and levels of happiness of 270 student subjects. The subjects were measured under controlled conditions and are found that students whose parents have just recently divorced tend to exhibit performance which are at par with their contemporaries. Some male subjects even posted higher productivity levels than other contemporaries during the experiment period, following the divorce of their parents.
Dr Eugenio Proto of the University of Warwick and one of the authors of the study, said "University students are much more resilient than has been presumed. Although parents do worry about divorcing around the years that their children go to university, our tests suggests those children turn out to be just as happy as other students."
Another team member, Dr Daniel Sgroi said, "Given the large number of university students throughout the industrialized world who have recently divorced parents, our results can only be reassuring news for concerned parents and students alike."
The paper was written by Dr. Eugenio Proto, Dr. Daniel Sgroi, and Professor Andrew Oswald and has just recently been published in the Institute for the Study of Labor as a discussion paper. |
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