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IV. Parental Personality and Attitude and Childhood Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

I. Kolvin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
R. F. Garside
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
J. S. H. Kidd
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Extract

It is a common assumption in child psychiatry that the personality and attitudes of parents exert a fundamental influence on the developing child. This hypothesis merits careful examination. The authors were particularly interested in testing it in relation to aberrant personalities and undeniable psychiatric disorder in childhood. Theoretically there are two main methodological steps;

  1. (i) The proving of a correlation between parental and childhood variables. The present paper concentrates on this step.

  2. (ii) experimental or other studies to demon strate causal relationships between these variables.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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