Early Parental Deprivation and Later Behavioural Outcomes: Cluster Analysis Study of Normal and Abnormal Groups

Abstract

SYNOPSIS Despite high figures recorded from the normal population early parental deprivation is commoner in psychiatric and deviant populations. This deprivation and Its aftermath Ls qualitatively different when normal and abnormal samples are contrasted. Suicidal, delinquent, criminal, alcoholic, neurotic, socially deviant and normal groups were studied on variables related to early parental deprivation and other family characteristics. By the classificatory strategy, cluster analysis, three abnormul and two normal groups were generated. at UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL on June 17, 2015 anp.sagepub.com Downloaded from

The Long‐Term Effects of Parental Divorce in Childhood on Adult Adjustment

“…In Table 2, where we examine indicators of psychological adjustment and well-being in relation to intactness of parental home, we find further, albeit modest, support for the assumption that parental divorce and separation may remain salient among adults. These measures are of particular interest here, because they represent the types of dimensions on which evidence for negative, long-term effects of disrupted family background has traditionally been sought (e.g., Beck, Sethi & Tuthill, 1963;Crook & Raskin, 1975;Koller & Williams, 1974;Munro, 1969aMunro, , 1969b. In our samples, we find that adults who have experienced parental divorce are indeed more likely to report having felt an impending nervous breakdown, although the relationship is somewhat weaker in 1976 than in 1957, particularly among women.…”

“…Such limitations include: (a) failure to distinguish between parental deprivation due to marital disruption and parental loss due to death (cf. Chen & Cobb, 1960;Koller & Williams, 1974), @) the use of specialized or "biased" samples; and (c) failure to adequately take into account the prevalence of childhood parental loss or separation within the general population (cf. Munro, 1965).…”

“…Although a number of studies investigating linkages between parental separation and later adjustment have been conducted and reviewed over the past few decades (e.g., Chen & Cobb, 1960;Gregory, 1966;Koller & Williams, 1974;Munro, 1965Munro, , 1969aMunro, , 1969bMunro & Griffiths, 1969), most of these studies suffer from one or more methodological flaws which make their results difficult to interpret. First, many early studies failed to distinguish between parental deprivation due to voluntary marital disruption and permanent loss due to parental death (Chen & Cobb, 1960;Koller & Willams, 1974).…”

Recidivists: Their past and Families Compared with First Time only Prisoners

“…Other factors, though not studied here, might include the special psychosocial handicapping of the first born, last born and middle order siblings. The literature suggests peculiar developmental problems at these locations within the sibship, especially where there are young parents and numerical predominance of either male or female siblings (Birtchnell, 1970;Schmuck, 1963;Koller and Williams, 1974;Hare and Shaw, 1965).…”

Letters to the Editor

“…We also acknowledge that we omitted other Australasian work, including that of Donnan et al (1977), also of Melbourne; Ironside (1969), then of Dunedin, but now of Melbourne; Koller and his colleagues in Sydney and Hobart (1968, 1969, 1974, 1976; Large (1978Large ( , 1979 of Auckland; Lindsay (1973Lindsay ( , 1978 of Auckland and Townsville; and Werry and Pedder (1976) also of Auckland. There really should be no difficulty in understanding why there were omissions of Victorian publicationsthe reviewers are human and fallible.…”