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The identification of alienated parents and children: Implications for school psychologists
Author(s) -
Calabrese Raymond L.,
Miller John W.,
Dooley Buddy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198704)24:2<145::aid-pits2310240208>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - alienation , psychology , attendance , social alienation , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , identification (biology) , social psychology , clinical psychology , physics , botany , quantum mechanics , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
This study sought to determine which factors associated with parents and children were the best predictors of parental alienation. The levels of alienation of parents of 49 students in two selected fourth‐grade classrooms in a Midwestern urban school district were assessed using the Dean Alienation Scale. The levels of parental alienation were compared with parent and child variable. High levels of alienation were associated with single, unemployed female parents, whose child was a female with few perceived friends. The degree of alienation was not related to the race, achievement, or attendance of the student. However, a weighted combination of the 12 variables was significant in terms of predicting the parental level of alienation.