Role of maternal psychopathology in male and female schizophrenics.

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Selecting from records of a child guidance clinic, the psychopathology of 165 mothers of male and female children and adolescents was studied in order to investigate sex differences in the degree of relationship between mother's mental status and the child's later hospitalization for schizophrenia. Of the children, 108 were later hospitalized for schizophrenia, while 57 achieved an adequate adjustment in areas of work and interpersonal relationships. For the girls, those who became schizophrenic had severely disturbed mothers significantly more often than did those who achieved an adequate adjustment (p<.02). The relationship between severity of maternal psychopathology and the child's later mental status was not significant for boys. The results were consistent with the findings of studies on sex role identification. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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