Assessing Some Aspects of the Parent-Child Relationship

A review of children's reports of parent behaviors.

“…Children who have been evaluated by peers, teachers, or nonprofessional adults as socially and personally maladjusted (quarrelsome, noisy, boisterous) or as aggressive rate parents as unloving (Anderson, 1940;Cox & Leaper, 1961) and as more rejecting (Cox, 1962). Children rated low in moral character traits report undemocratic home atmosphere (Brown, Morrison, & Couch, 1947) and lower affectional family relations (Havighurst & Taba, 1949).…”

“…fer's A-R and Seigelman's L, and Dominance corresponds to Schaefer's PC-PA and Seigelman's D. However, this is not the case withCox and Leaper's (1961) four independent ever, in terms of Seigelman's (196S) model, the latter two factors seem describable by D; in…”