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Abused Wives: Perceptions during Crisis Counseling.
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Kelly, Eileen M.; Loesch, Larry C. – American Mental Health Counselors Association Journal, 1983
Investigated the perceptions of 42 abused wives about their husbands and marital situations during counseling immediately following incidences of wife abuse. Results showed wives generally perceived their husbands as extremely possessive and often irrational. Wife abuse was often symptomatic of other marital problems. (JAC)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Battered Women, Behavior Patterns, Counseling Techniques
Coping with Parental Problems: Issues in Judging Effectiveness.
Menaghan, Elizabeth – 1982
Empirical knowledge of coping usage and coping effectiveness has lagged behind popular interest. To examine the effectiveness of specific coping efforts in a single role area--parenting--panel data from a large metropolitan population were examined. The same coping efforts were assessed using two criteria of effectiveness: the extent to which they…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Family Problems, Models
The Relationship of Personality Traits to the Employment Status of Persons Who Are Blind.
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Hagemoser, S. D. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
Two levels of education (high school or less, or training beyond high school) and nine content scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 were used to predict employment-related outcomes of 109 blind adults. Education, anger, cynicism, obsessiveness, and family problems were significant predictors of employability. Self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Blindness, Educational Background
The Child Abusing Family: II. Child and Child-Rearing Variables, Environmental Factors and Typologies of Abusing Families.
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Berger, Audrey M. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1980
Characteristics such as prematurity, illegitimacy, handicaps, or behavior deviations have been found with high frequency in abused children. Aggressive/coercive behavior may be typical of child rearing techniques in abusing families who tend to be socially isolated and experience environmental stress. Investigators must interpret such factors with…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Family (Sociological Unit)
Multivariate Correlates of Childhood Psychological and Physical Maltreatment among University Women.
Briere, John; Runtz, Marsha – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1988
This study used multivariate techniques to examine the relationship between extent of psychological and physical maltreatment by mothers and fathers and a variety of current psychological symptoms in 251 university women. Behaviors reflective of both psychological and physical maltreatment by both mothers and fathers were found in the same…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, College Students, Correlation
Reconstructions of Family Relationships: Parent-Child Alliances, Personal Distress, and Self-Esteem.
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Jacobvitz, Deborah B.; Bush, Nell F. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined how women's reconstruction of various family patterns during childhood and adulthood relate to levels of depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. Found that women who recalled cross-generational alliances or triangulated family patterns, and whose parents were emotionally distant, were more at risk for depression, anxiety, and low…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Behavior Patterns, College Students