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A Review on Single Mother Family’s Psychological Well-being

This review was to investigate theoretical view and definition, to understand diversity of measurement, and to pursue variables related with single mother family’s psychological well-being. Mothers’ age, loss years of spouse, income, education, cause of single mother, remarriage, relation with ex-husband, health, children’s existence, children’s number, children’s age, mothers’ job, stress, coping, social support were explored in mothers’ psychological well-being. Children’s sex, children’s age, cause of father’s nonresidence, raising attitude, contact with father, stress, coping, social support were explored in children’s psychological well-being. Further studies must be needed about mother-children interaction of single mother family, more precise psychological well-being scales and longitudinal research model should be developed, and development of family life education program must be presented for low-income single mother family.