TAXONOMY OF FAMILY-LIFE STYLES .2. HOMES WITH SLOW-LEARNING CHILDREN

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 89  (2) , 111-123
Abstract
A battery of instruments dealing with family social environment and family and child characteristics and behavior was administered to 218 families with slow-learning children in EMR [educably mentally retarded] and educably handicapped programs. Cluster analysis was performed on family environment variables. Seven unique family clusters with distinctive patterns of characteristics were identified: child-oriented, cohesive; learning-oriented, high residential quality; low disclosure, unharmonious; disadvantage, noncohesive; achievement-oriented, low residential quality; expression-oriented with few sociocultural interests; and outerdirected with little achievement-orientation. Comparisons among the clusters and ethnographic/interviewer observations revealed significant differences in other family and child characteristics and behavior. Development of a classification system for families with retarded children was discussed.

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: