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Outcome predictors in a longitudinal study of high‐risk boys
Author(s) -
Greenwald Deborah F.,
Harder David W.
Publication year - 1994
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(199407)50:4<638::aid-jclp2270500422>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - psychology , socioeconomic status , longitudinal study , social class , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , outcome (game theory) , psychiatry , demography , medicine , population , mathematics , mathematical economics , pathology , sociology , political science , law
This study of “high risk” investigated a 3‐year follow‐up sample of boys in the University of Rochester Child and Family Study of intact families in which at least one parent had been hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder. These families and their sons were studied in order to identify predictive factors for child outcome. Best‐functioning ( n = 17) and worst‐functioning ( n = 13) groups of boys (from a total N = 94) were differentiated successfully by time 1 parent and family interaction predictors. These variables included several measures of parent deviant communication and balanced/warm family interaction, chronicity and level of parent pathology, and socioeconomic class. Parent diagnosis was not associated significantly with outcome.