We also hypothesized that initiating the divorce is positively associated
with adjustment, and the analysis supported this assumption (see also
Gray & Silver, 1990.) This finding reinforces the importance of distinguishing
between accepting responsibility for the cause of a problem
(which appears to impede adjustment) and accepting responsibility for the
solution to a problem (which appears to facilitate adjustment)—a distinction
often made in therapeutic settings (Brickman et al., 1982).