A measure of "homelessness."

A review of children's reports of parent behaviors.

“…The main effects of age independent of sex appear to be that children feel less accepted. Elias (1952), reporting increased "homelessness," and Swan-son (1950), reporting increasingly poor reports of family atmosphere, supported this finding. However, sex by age effects introduce great confusion.…”

“…L and AR. With both parents considered as a unity, Elias (1952) showed greater feelings of "homelessness" in boys, and Hayward (1935) indicated greater judgment of family incompatibility by boys. With respect to reported maternal behavior, boys see mothers as less accepting (Anderson, 1940;Seigelman, 1965).…”

“…L and AR. Social class was found to be correlated positively with affection (Anderson, 1940), and love (Seigelman, 1965), and to be related predictably to "homelessness" (Elias, 1952). It has been found, also, that middleclass boys perceive parents as more accepting and interested (Rosen, 1964), that children of laborers compared to children of professionals report more family disharmony (Hayward, 1935), and that underprivileged children report greater social distance between themselves and parents (Du Valle, 1937).…”

Familial attitudes in paranoid schizophrenics and normals from two socioeconomic classes.

“…The test battery consisted of two procedures, the Elias Family Opinion Survey (Elias, 1952), designated the EFOS, and a projective technique devised specifically for use in this study, the Family Attitude Scale, designated the FAS. The EFOS as used here consists of 157 incomplete statements concerning family relationships in which 5 is expected to fill in "always," "often," "sometimes," "rarely," "never," each carrying a weighting from one to five.…”