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Preliminary Communication: 2: The Highlands Dependency Questionnaire (HDQ)1: An administered version for use with mothers of school children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Ian Berg ,
Ralph McGuire  and
Edward Whelan
Ian Berg*
Affiliation:
High Lands Adolescent Unit, Scalebor Park Hospital, Yorkshire; University of Leeds
Ralph McGuire
Affiliation:
High Lands Adolescent Unit, Scalebor Park Hospital, Yorkshire; University of Leeds
Edward Whelan
Affiliation:
Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester
*
2 Correspondence to: Dr. Ian Berg, Cramond, 7 Stone Rings Close, Harrogate, Yorkshire. (Additional data will be supplied on request.)
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Synopsis

A questionnaire concerned with dependency, mainly in the mother–child relationship, and intended for use in child psychiatry, is described. It was administered to the mothers of 116 randomly selected junior and secondary school children in the general population, stratified into age, sex, social class, and school groupings. Two meaningful dimensions were revealed by principal component factor analyses: one concerned with reliance on mother and the other reflecting sociability. Reliability and validity were found to be satisfactory.

Type
Preliminary Communication
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , August 1971 , pp. 343 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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Footnotes

1

A grant was obtained from the Leeds Regional Hospital Board.

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