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An analysis of the incidence of reported violent non-sexual physical behavior in parent-child dyads from biological and stepfamilies in a mental-health clinic population
Abstract
Violent physical behavior incidents were collected from a sample of 81 out-patient mental health charts from 1972-1992, the purpose of which was to determine if an association existed between violent behaviors in intact biological families and intact stepfamilies. A chi square test $\chi\sp2$ = 1.89 with a significance level of.388 showed no difference in the incidence of violent behavior in biological and stepfamilies. Biological families accounted for a larger percentage of violent behaviors (63.2%) and total number of current perpetrators (44%) than stepfamilies (36.8%) and current stepfamily perpetrators (26%). Victims were overwhelmingly children (89.5%) clustering between the ages of 9-18 (84.2%). Of these, 63% were male and 37% were female. Slapping accounted for the most prevalent and repeatedly reoccuring type of violent behavior (80%) perpetrated of all violent behaviors across all ages and in both family types.
Subject Area
Nursing|Mental health|Behavioral psychology|Individual & family studies|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Pursley, Victoria V, "An analysis of the incidence of reported violent non-sexual physical behavior in parent-child dyads from biological and stepfamilies in a mental-health clinic population" (1993). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI1352546.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI1352546