TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - Aggressive behavior in normal and deviant members of intact versus mother-only families
JO  - Journal of abnormal child psychology
A1  - Horne, Arthur M.
SP  - 283
EP  - 290
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
N2  - Single-parent families have been identified as using more coercion and aggression to elicit compliance than intact families. The present study compared 9 mother-only and 15 intact families from a referred clinical sample to 9 mother-only and 16 intact nonreferred "normal" families using a family behavioral observation code. Clinical families emitted higher rates of aggressive behavior than normals, and mother-only emitted higher rates than intact. However, mother-only normals had lower rates than intact clinical families. The intact versus mother-only factor appears to be less important in understanding aggression than do the specific interactional patterns of family members.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0627
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -