Citation

Davidson LL, Hughes SJ, Richards MH. Pers. Individ. Dif. 1987; 8(6): 961-963.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0191-8869(87)90151-6

PMID

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Abstract

Measures of injury were obtained in a birth cohort of 953 children in Wales along with maternal Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and children's Behaviour Screening Questionnaire (BSQ) data. While there was no relationship between maternal E and child injury, children of low-N mothers had significantly fewer injuries than those of medium of high-N mothers. The magnitude of this trend remained after controlling for the BSQ variables also relating to injury, but was no longer significant in the case of management disorder or of sex. Moreover, while the association was observed for families with only one or two children, this was not the case for families with three or more children.

Language: en