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Some developmental antecedents of psychopathology 1
Author(s) -
Rousell Charles H.,
Edwards Carl N.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1971.tb00048.x
Subject(s) - permissive , psychology , neuroticism , anxiety , punitive damages , atmosphere (unit) , developmental psychology , young adult , psychopathology , personality , psychiatry , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , physics , virology , political science , law , thermodynamics
S ummary The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was administered to 64 young adults whose mothers had participated 17 years earlier in the Sears, Maccoby, and Levin interview study of childrearing A permissive home atmosphere in childhood appears to be related to neurotic (including hypochondriacal) and psychotic disturbances in female young adults, while a cold home atmosphere is related to psychopathological disorders in young adult males Also for young adult males there tends to be an association between an excessively warm‐nonpunitive home atmosphere in childhood and the development of strong anxiety and psychotic disturbances Phobic and psychotic disorders tend to have emerged from a cold‐punitive home atmosphere for males For females a warm‐punitive or permissive‐punitive home atmosphere appears to be related to neurotic disturbances and the paranoid reaction These findings were examined with and without K scale corrections with no significant differences in results