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Parental Focus of Attention in a Videotape Feedback Task as a Function of Hypothesized Risk for Offspring Schizophrenia
Author(s) -
LIEBER DEBORAH J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1977.00467.x
Subject(s) - offspring , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , task (project management) , focus (optics) , function (biology) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , pregnancy , biology , genetics , physics , management , evolutionary biology , optics , economics
The families of 29 disturbed but nonpsychotic adolescents were observed in a structured task in which they discussed their reactions to viewing themselves interacting on videotape. Measures derived from the Singer‐Wynne concept of transactional style deviance were applied to the parental behaviors and related to prior assessments of parental communication disorder based on individual parental TAT protocols. The results confirm the Singer‐Wynne hypothesis of the cross‐situational stability of transactional style deviance. The most striking finding, however, is that an index of positive focusing behavior differentiates more strongly parents of adolescents hypothesized to be at varying levels of risk for schizophrenia than does the measure of transactional style deviance.