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Differences in the behavior of welfare and non‐welfare children in relation to parental characteristics
Author(s) -
Eisenberg Jeanne G.,
Langner Thomas S.,
Gersten Joanne C.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197510)3:4<311::aid-jcop2290030402>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - welfare , developmental psychology , psychology , socioeconomic status , anxiety , juvenile delinquency , sample (material) , demography , clinical psychology , population , psychiatry , sociology , economics , market economy , chemistry , chromatography
This paper reports differences in the prevalence of various behaviors of children and parents in two large but markedly different socioeconomic samples from the same urban area. For child behavior differences between samples, the relationships of parental variables to those behaviors were examined using multiple regression techniques. Various parental dimensions (particularly coldness and excitability) showed strong and comparable relationships to child behavior in the two different samples. While parental coldness was central to delinquency in both samples, it was particularly important in the Welfare sample. The excitable‐rejecting quality of the mother was critically associated with children's anxiety and family conflict, which were more common behaviors for the cross‐sectional children. Other child and parental behaviors are also discussed.