Family Interaction Variables and Adjustment of Nonclinic Boys

MURRELL, STANLEY A. Family Interaction Variables and Adjustment of Nonclinic Boys. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 1485-1494. 2 family interaction studies were replicated in the comparison of 30 nonclinic family tetrads divided into High, Average, and Low Adjustment groups, on the basis of social acceptance and achievement effort scores of their 10-12-year-old sons, to determine whether differences previously found between clinic and nonclinic families would obtain for families comparatively close on the adjustment dimension. Members of Average families made decisions faster and talked more equally to one another than members of Low families and had higher normality scores than either Highs or Lows. Who-talks-towhom measures were stable over time.