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Diabetic Children and Their Parents: Personality Correlates of Metabolic Control
Author(s) -
RYDÉN O.,
NEVANDER L.,
JOHNSSON P.,
WESTBOM L.,
SJÖBLAD S.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1990.tb11411.x
Subject(s) - autonomy , personality , medicine , metabolic control analysis , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , diabetes mellitus , psychology , endocrinology , social psychology , political science , law
. Test measures of field‐dependence‐independence and impulsiveness‐control were obtained from two groups of diabetic children and their parents, the children being in optimal (O, n=12) or poor (P, n=27) metabolic control and, according to the judgment of clinicians, showing optimal or poor psychological adaptation. Children of the O‐group scored lower in impulsiveness and higher in realistic functioning than those of the P‐group. Differences which parallelled these were found between the two groups of fathers. The P‐group fathers were decidedly more field‐dependent than their wives, while the opposite was found for the O‐group. Group differences of the kind obtained were seen as possible determinants of disturbed family interaction or emotional stress in the child in the P‐group and of autonomy and self‐reliance in the child in the O‐group. It is concluded that the role of fathers of diabetic children has been underestimated.