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Quelles Sont Les Conditions Associées À Une Bonne Adaptation Au Rôle Paternel Post-Rupture?: Parcours Paternels et Points de Vue de Pères

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
12 Juillet 2006

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Cet article présente les résultats d'un volet d'une recherche qualitative qui vise à identifier les différentes conditions (psychologiques et sociales) qui semblent favoriser ou nuire à l'adaptation des pères à leur rôle parental après une rupture conjugale. Les analyses de récits de vie de 27 pères séparés ou divorcés qui sont présents dans la vie de leurs enfants ont permis d'identifier 4 trajectoires paternelles adaptatives post-rupture. Ces trajectoires ou parcours de vie renvoient aux événements, obstacles, stratégies et facilitateurs qui caractérisent leur expérience post-rupture. Les éléments qui influencent positivement l'adaptation à leur rôle parental varient selon les trajectoires. Toutefois, certains sont communs à l'ensemble des pères. Ils concernent leur capacité à réaliser des compromis et des sacrifices importants avec l'ex-conjointe relativement à leur entente de séparation ou de divorce, leur croyance en l'importance de leur rôle dans la vie de leurs enfants, leur capacité à accepter ou à demander de l'aide après la rupture et leurs démarches proactives pour accéder à des conditions satisfaisantes d'exercice de leur rôle parental.

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This article presents the findings of one phase of a qualitative study aimed at identifying the various factors (psychological and social) that seem to help or hinder fathers in coping with their parental role after a marital breakdown. Analyses of the life stories of 27 separated or divorced fathers who are present in their children's lives identified 4 paternal coping trajectories following marital breakdown. These trajectories or life paths refer to the events, obstacles, strategies, and facilitating factors that characterize the fathers' experiences after separation or divorce. The factors that have a positive influence on how they cope with their parental role vary according to trajectory. However, a number are common to the group of fathers as a whole. These concern a father's ability to make significant compromises and sacrifices with his expartner in relation to their separation or divorce agreement, his belief in the importance of the role he plays in his children's lives, his ability to accept or ask for help after the breakdown of his marriage and his proactive approach to achieving satisfactory conditions for carrying out his parental role.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 25Number 1April 2006
Pages: 17 - 32

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Judith Gaudet
Université du Québec à Montréal
Annie Devault
Université du Québec en Outaouais

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