Parental Management, Self-Concept, and Drug Response in Minimal Brain Dysfunction
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Vol. 8 (3) , 187-190
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002221947500800314
Abstract
Boys with minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) were divided into two groups based on quality of parental management and compared with a group of age-matched normoactive elementary school boys. Self-esteem and impulse control were inferred from a projective car-drawing test. It was concluded that parental management can make a difference in MBD children's self-esteem, but that even the well-managed MBD boy may suffer some decrement in his feelings of self-worth. While MBD boys differed from normals in some impulse control comparisons, parental management does not appear to be a factor. Significantly more well-managed MBD children responded positively to medication than did poorly-managed children.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- The relationship between impulse control and self-esteem in school childrenPsychology in the Schools, 1974
- An indirect measure of self-esteem and impulse control in elementary-school childrenPsychology in the Schools, 1972
- Clinical Aspects of the Loney Draw-A-Car Test: Enuresis and EncopresisJournal of Personality Assessment, 1971
- Studies on the Hyperactive ChildArchives of General Psychiatry, 1971
- Anticipating the Response to Amphetamine Therapy in the Treatment of Hyperkinetic ChildrenPublished by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) ,1967