Citation

Horne AM. J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. 1981; 9(2): 283-290.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

7276405

Abstract

Single-parent families have been identified as using more coercion and aggression to elicit compliance than intact families. The present study compared 9 mother-only and 15 intact families from a referred clinical sample to 9 mother-only and 16 intact nonreferred "normal" families using a family behavioral observation code. Clinical families emitted higher rates of aggressive behavior than normals, and mother-only emitted higher rates than intact. However, mother-only normals had lower rates than intact clinical families. The intact versus mother-only factor appears to be less important in understanding aggression than do the specific interactional patterns of family members.

Language: en