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Reports an error in the original article by G. H. Frank (Psychological Bulletin, 1965, Vol 64[3], 191-205). The eighth item in the bibliography should have been attributed to Garmezy, Farina, and Rodnick (1960) rather than Bell, Garmezy, Farina, and Rodnick. The author also stated incorrectly that the parents' responses to the PARI were used as the content of the interaction between parents in the studies reported in Farina (I960), Farina and Dunham (1963), and Garmezy, Farina, and Rodnick (1960); it was, rather, sets of hypothetical situations adapted from a research method used by Jackson (1956). As was indicated in Frank's presentation, the common denominator in these particular research endeavors was that they were predicated on the basic model established by Strodtbeck (1951), that is, eliciting the attitudes of parents by having them respond to written material with their opinions, individually, then in interaction with each other; the error was in recording what constituted the material by which the parental attitudes were elicited.. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 1965-15947-001.) Psychologists generally make the assumption that the experiences to which the individual is exposed over a period of time lead to the development of learned patterns of behavior. From this, psychologists have reasoned that the experiences the individual has in his early life at home, with his family, in general, and his mother, in particular, are major determinants in the learning of the constellation of behaviors subsumed under the rubric, personality, and in particular, the development of psychopathology. A review of the research of the past 40 yrs failed to support this assumption. No factors were found in the parent-child interaction of schizophrenics, neurotics, or those with behavior disorders which could be identified as unique to them or which could distinguish one group from the other, or any of the groups from the families of the controls. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
