Attitudes and behaviors of fathers and mothers of male schizophrenic patients.

Farina, Amerigo; Holzberg, Jules D.

doi:10.1037/h0020106

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“…The four dominance indexes used, together with the reliability of each, are also described in the report by Farina and Holzberg (1967). Of course, in addition to scoring the parental behaviors, the dominating behavior displayed by the son was also scored in the present study.…”

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Interaction Patterns of Parents and Hospitalized Sons Diagnosed as Schizophrenic or Nonschizophrenic.

Farina¹,

Holzberg²

1968

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Ss of the present study were 74 sets of parents and their biological sons. All offspring were hospitalized for psychiatric reasons with 24 bearing a nonschizophrenic diagnosis and SO diagnosed as schizophrenic. Dominant and conflictful behavior was elicited by asking each of the 3 family members individually how they would resolve 6 hypothetical problem situations, and then bringing all 3 together and asking them how they would resolve the same 6 problems as a family. With regard to dominance, the only differences found were that poor premorbid schizophrenic patients were less dominant than were the control sons. Several indexes indicated that parents of poor premorbid schizophrenic patients experienced more conflict in interacting with each other than did parents of controls.

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Interaction Patterns of Parents and Hospitalized Sons Diagnosed as Schizophrenic or Nonschizophrenic.

Farina¹,

Holzberg²

1968

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…Several earlier studies had also found older mean paternal birth ages for schizophrenia patients [Gregory, 1966; Schooler and Parkel, 1966; Bojanovsky and Gerylovova, 1967; Farina and Holzberg, 1967; Johanson, 1968; Hare and Moran, 1979; Kinnell, 1983], but new mutations were not generally considered to mediate this association. Rather, a number of authors speculated that men with genetic schizophrenia vulnerability might simply have children at a later age.…”

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Paternal age and sporadic schizophrenia: Evidence for de novo mutations

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Schizophrenia is an etiologically heterogeneous syndrome. It has a strong genetic component and exists in clinically indistinguishable familial and nonfamilial (sporadic) forms. A significant role for de novo genetic mutations in genetic schizophrenia vulnerability is suggested by a strong monotonic increase in schizophrenia risk with advancing paternal age. However, an alternative explanation for the paternal age effect in schizophrenia is that childbearing is delayed in fathers who themselves have genetic schizophrenia vulnerability. In this study, we compared paternal birth ages between patient groups with familial (n = 35) and sporadic (n = 68) patients with DSM-IV schizophrenia from an inpatient schizophrenia research unit. If later age of fathering children is related to having some genetic schizophrenia vulnerability, then paternal birth age should be later in familial schizophrenia cases than in sporadic cases, and any association of father's age and schizophrenia risk in offspring would be a spurious finding, unrelated to etiology. However, if de novo mutations cause sporadic schizophrenia, then patients without a family history of schizophrenia would have older fathers than familial patients. We found that patients without a family history of schizophrenia had significantly older fathers (4.7 years) than familial patients; so later childbirth was not attributable to parental psychiatric illness. These findings support the hypothesis that de novo mutations contribute to the risk for sporadic schizophrenia.

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“…Par ailleurs, des analyses de questionnaires démontrent plus de désaccords et plus de conflits conjugaux chez les parents de deux types de schizophrènes : ceux qui ont une pauvre personnalité prémorbide, et ceux qui sont hospitalisés de façon chronique. Ceci suggère que les problèmes des parents seraient plus l'effet que la cause de la maladie chez les schizophrènes (Farina et Holzberg 1967-68, Sharam 1966.…”

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La famille du schizophrène : interférente ou alliée?

Boucher¹,

Lalonde²

2006

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Résumé Nous avons fait un tour d'horizon des différentes études qui, dans la seconde moitié de notre siècle, ont été faites sur la famille du schizophrène. Les premières études, plus descriptives, cherchaient à établir l'étiologie de la schizophrénie ; elles identifiaient la famille comme étant une des principales causes de la maladie. Par la suite, le raffinement de la méthodologie et l'apport des études génétiques ont amené les chercheurs à considérer la famille d'un point de vue différent. La famille apparaît désormais comme un facteur important mais elle est liée aux facteurs environnementaux subtils et complexes qui restent encore à déterminer. Les chercheurs tendent maintenant à privilégier une approche qui permette à la famille de jouer un rôle actif face à l'évolution de la maladie. On perçoit de plus en plus la famille comme une alliée potentielle du malade et on s'efforce de l'associer au traitement. C'est du moins le but poursuivi par les tenants de l'approche psychoéducative, et les résultats thérapeutiques semblent, à l'heure actuelle, des plus encourageants.

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Attitudes and behaviors of fathers and mothers of male schizophrenic patients.

Cited by 20 publications

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Interaction Patterns of Parents and Hospitalized Sons Diagnosed as Schizophrenic or Nonschizophrenic.

Interaction Patterns of Parents and Hospitalized Sons Diagnosed as Schizophrenic or Nonschizophrenic.

Paternal age and sporadic schizophrenia: Evidence for de novo mutations

La famille du schizophrène : interférente ou alliée?

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