Abstract:A group of 80 black, urban ghetto mothers, 40 which a behaviorally disturbed child and 40 with no identified disturbed child, was evaluated by the MMPI. The literature reports a relationship between maternal pathology and child disturbance for middle- and working-class families. The present study, however, showed no such relationship between these two variables in ghetto families.
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