An Examination of Defense Style in Parents Who Abuse Children
作者:
JOHN BRENNAN,
GAVIN ANDREWS,
ALLEN MORRIS-YATES,
CHRISTOPHER POLLOCK,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 178,
issue 9
页码: 592-595
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1990
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The study aimed to determine the predominant defense style in parents who abuse their children, at least as determined by a new defense style questionnaire. The scores of 32 parents who had physically abused their young children and had been assessed after court proceedings were compared with a normal population sample and with patients with anxiety disorders who were equally symptomatic. Parents who had abused their children identified themselves as being particularly likely to use projection, displacement, passive-aggressiveness denial, and splitting to a degree greater than normal persons or patients with anxiety disorders. We would caution that, although the differences remained after statistical control of age and sex differences, a firm conclusion that such defenses are germane to child abuse will have to await replication of these findings with a study using a control group of young parents who do not abuse their children matched for social class and family structure.
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