I was pleasantly surprised to read
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 4:45 am
The idea to write this post came to me after reading Barbara Strauk’s book “Secrets of the Adult Brain” (Moscow: Career Press, 2011).
There is a fairly common and popular concept in family psychology - the "empty nest" syndrome. Its essence is that when grown-up children leave their parents' home and begin to live independently, a crisis may occur in the life and relationships of their parents, the results of which may be conflicts, depression, and even divorce. For several decades now, this theory has been actively used by family psychotherapists, described in scientific books and magazines.
from Barbara Strauk that this is just a myth, and that it only paraguay cell phone number list gained popularity due to a misinterpretation of a pilot study on a very small sample.
The first data I could find on empty nest syndrome was a small pilot study published in June 1966 in The American Journal of Psychiatry. The study, “The Empty Nest: Psychological Aspects of Conflict between Depressed Women and Their Grown Children,” was based on a sample of 16 depressed women whose children had left home (emphasis mine – AP). The authors decided that there was at least a temporary relationship between the two factors…
Here is what the author writes: “…no one has ever been able to detect the empty nest syndrome scientifically. On the contrary, even among women who devoted all their time to raising children, studies have found “quite high satisfaction” when children became independent… (p. 91)
There is a fairly common and popular concept in family psychology - the "empty nest" syndrome. Its essence is that when grown-up children leave their parents' home and begin to live independently, a crisis may occur in the life and relationships of their parents, the results of which may be conflicts, depression, and even divorce. For several decades now, this theory has been actively used by family psychotherapists, described in scientific books and magazines.
from Barbara Strauk that this is just a myth, and that it only paraguay cell phone number list gained popularity due to a misinterpretation of a pilot study on a very small sample.
The first data I could find on empty nest syndrome was a small pilot study published in June 1966 in The American Journal of Psychiatry. The study, “The Empty Nest: Psychological Aspects of Conflict between Depressed Women and Their Grown Children,” was based on a sample of 16 depressed women whose children had left home (emphasis mine – AP). The authors decided that there was at least a temporary relationship between the two factors…
Here is what the author writes: “…no one has ever been able to detect the empty nest syndrome scientifically. On the contrary, even among women who devoted all their time to raising children, studies have found “quite high satisfaction” when children became independent… (p. 91)