Children's Dependency Scale.

Golightly, Carole; Nelson, Dave; Johnson, J.J.

doi:10.1037/h0029421

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“…Although the overall contribution that can be made from a single study is inevitably limited, the findings concerning the difficulties experienced in family communication and closeness and the high degree of passivity and unassertive behavior on the part of the epileptic children can be supported by other work in the literature. For example, Hartlage, Green, and Offutt (9) reported higher dependency scores on the Children's Dependency Scale (8) for the 51 epileptic children in their study than for control groups of children with cystic fibrosis and tonsilectomy. Similarly, Stores and Piran (18), in attempting to investigate dimensions of dependency in epileptic children according to age, school, type of seizure activity, and type of drug treatment, found epileptic boys to be especially dependent compared with both nonepileptic boys and girls with epilepsy.…”

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confidence: 91%

The Family and the Child with Epilepsy

1983

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Reports documenting psychosocial epiphenomena of chronic illness in individuals with that illness have been common in recent years. Few studies, however, have been concerned with how illness might affect the family. Those that have appeared in the literature often lack critical controls (i.e., control groups) and often fail to investigate possible links between illness-specific variables (i.e. chronicity, inhibition of mobility) and psychosocial outcomes on the family. The present study of 45 families focused on how children with epilepsy affect their families' functioning relative to families with a child with diabetes and families with no chronically ill members. The results suggest several areas of child and family adjustment (i.e. child self-concept, family communication, family cohesion) in which the families of epileptic children have great difficulty. Implications of these results are discussed with regard to differential influences of various chronic illnesses on families and family-based preventive and remedial treatment programs.

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confidence: 91%

The Family and the Child with Epilepsy

1983

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“…Ojha & Singh, 1985;Singh & Ojha, 1987;Vats, 1986). Similar gender differences in dependency are found in school-age children of various ages when self-report measures are used (Chadha, 1983;Ederer, 1988;Golightly, Nelson, & Johnson, 1970;H. Ojha & Singh, 1972).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Longitudinal studies of dependency in children typically find little or no difference in boys' and girls' dependency levels during early childhood (Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974). However, gender differences in dependency increase with increasing age (Kagan & Moss, 1960), and by the time that children reach school age, girls almost invariably show significantly higher dependency levels than do boys on self-report measures (Chadha, 1983; Golightly et al, 1970; Yeger & Miezitis, 1985). Kagan and Moss's (1960) classic longitudinal study of dependency illustrates the general pattern of results obtained in most studies of this issue.…”

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confidence: 99%

The dependent personality: Developmental, social, and clinical perspectives.

Bornstein¹

1992

Psychological Bulletin

248

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Developmental, social, and clinical studies of dependency have produced remarkably consistent results. A review and integration of these findings allow strong conclusions to be drawn regarding the etiology and dynamics of dependency. The etiology of dependency appears to lie in overprotective, authoritarian parenting. In social settings, dependency is associated with suggestibility, conformity, compliance, interpersonal yielding, affiliative behavior, and sensitivity to interpersonal cues. Dependency predicts the onset of certain psychological disorders and follows the onset of others. It seems that the fundamental motivation of the dependent person, from which the behaviors that are exhibited in different situations are derived, is a strong desire to obtain and maintain nurturant, supportive relationships. Implications of these findings for different theoretical models of dependency are discussed.

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“…Its self-administering form is likely to provide more certain information over a wide age range than the inventory used in the study of epileptic children by Hartlage and his colleagues (Hartlage et al 1972), which had to be completed by the child itself. Of particular value is the fact that the SADQ is supplied with population norms in contrast to other measures of dependency that have been used for children with epilepsy (Golightly et al 1970). It is likely that the children in the present study and those on whom the SADQ was standardized are comparable.…”

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confidence: 95%

Dependency of different types in schoolchildren with epilepsy

Stores

Piran

1978

Psychol. Med.

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SynopsisBy means of the Self-Administered Dependency Questionnaire (SADQ), 4 types of dependency on mother were measured in 65 children with epilepsy attending ordinary school, subgrouped according to sex, level of schooling, electrographic type of epilepsy, and drug treatment. The various dependency scores of each subgroup were compared with the appropriate norms available for the SADQ. Compared with normal boys, epileptic boys of primary school age (N = 16) were generally found to be more in need of close physical emotional contact with their mother and her physical proximity when away from home, although they were less ready to talk to her about their practical problems and ask for her help. The needs of epileptic boys of secondary-school age (N = 18) were expressed more in terms of their mother's help with practical matters at home. In contrast, no significant differences were apparent between epileptic and normal girls at either level of schooling. In comparisons between epileptic children who consistently produced only generalized seizure activity in their EEG (N = 31), a right temporal spike discharge (N = 16) or a similar discharge on the left (N = 18), both boys and girls with a left temporal spike discharge tended to show significantly higher need for close physical emotional contact with their mother than children in the other electrographic groups. No clear relationship was seen between dependency scores and type of anti-epileptic drug treatment.

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Children's Dependency Scale.

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

The Family and the Child with Epilepsy

The Family and the Child with Epilepsy

The dependent personality: Developmental, social, and clinical perspectives.

Dependency of different types in schoolchildren with epilepsy

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