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Comparative family conflict among student left political activists
Author(s) -
Abramowitz Stephen I.,
Abramowitz Christine V.,
Nassi Alberta J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<87::aid-jclp2270330117>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - psychology , politics , social psychology , political science , law
Abstract Sentence‐Completions of male and female college students of varying political philosophies (left, middle and right) and patterns of organizational affiliation (social‐political, nonsocial‐political and none) were ratcd by experienced clinicians along dimensions of quality of relationships with family. The degree of family emotional disequibrium perceived by the left political activists was comparable to that sensed by students at the other Activism × Ideology locations. However, (a) leftists were more negative about mothers ( P < 0.05) and tended to be more in conflict with their fathers ( p = 0.07 ) than moderates or rightists; (b) men expressed more dissatisfaction about mothers than women ( p < 0.025); and (c) ideologically extreme women, but moderate men, were judged to be getting along slightly more poorly with their families than were moderate women and politically extreme men ( p = 0.07 ).