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Peer reviewedKurtz, Chaya; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1993
Measured anxiety and autonomy in kibbutz father-orphaned (n=28) and nonorphaned (n=42) adolescents. Found no significant differences on levels of manifest anxiety and autonomy. When groups were broken down according to gender and age, found that older father-orphan girls manifested significantly greater anxiety than any group and significantly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Anxiety, Fatherless Family
Peer reviewedMeijer, Alexander; Himmelfarb, Sabine – Adolescence, 1984
Explored the feelings of 18 Jerusalem high school students about their mothers. Results showed fatherless adolescent girls perceived their mothers as significantly less benevelant than girls from two-parent families of similar backgrounds. No differences were found for boys. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Fatherless Family, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Peer reviewedLevy-Shiff, Rachel – Child Development, 1982
Effects of father absence on boys and girls who live in families headed by mothers were studied. Subjects were 40 Israeli children (ages 2.6 to 2.10 years of age) whose fathers had died before their birth. Strong differential effects were found in the responses of girls as compared with those of boys. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Fatherless Family, Foreign Countries
