NCJ Number
111155
Journal
Adolescence Volume: 23 Issue: 89 Dated: (Spring 1988) Pages: 171-185
Date Published
1988
Length
14 pages
Annotation
The responses of 62 adolescent females residing at a State training school and 62 high school females on a measure of perceived parental acceptance were compared while statistically controlling for mental age, chronological age, socioeconomic status, social desirability, and family structure.
Abstract
Generally significant results indicate that incarcerated females viewed their mothers and fathers more negatively than did nonincarcerated females. Slightly more ambivalent results were indicated in the mother-daughter relationship (delinquent girls reported mothers to be more rejecting/neglecting than did nondelinquents, but no significant differences were found between the groups on perceived mother acceptance) than in the father-daughter relationship. Results were discussed in terms of reported parental differences in acceptance-nonacceptance, providing limited support for Ausubel's satellization theory of child development, and the difficulty of inferring causality from retrospective self-report studies using 'captive' subjects. (Publisher abstract)