Horne A M
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1981 Jun;9(2):283-90. doi: 10.1007/BF00919120.
Single-parent families have been identified as using more coercion and aggression to elicit compliance than intact families. The present study compared 9 mother-only and 15 intact families from a referred clinical sample to 9 mother-only and 16 intact nonreferred "normal" families using a family behavioral observation code. Clinical families emitted higher rates of aggressive behavior than normals, and mother-only emitted higher rates than intact. However, mother-only normals had lower rates than intact clinical families. The intact versus mother-only factor appears to be less important in understanding aggression than do the specific interactional patterns of family members.
单亲家庭被认为比完整家庭更多地使用强制手段和攻击性来促使孩子服从。本研究使用家庭行为观察编码，将来自转诊临床样本的9个单亲母亲家庭和15个完整家庭与9个单亲母亲家庭和16个未转诊的“正常”完整家庭进行了比较。临床家庭的攻击性行为发生率高于正常家庭，单亲母亲家庭的发生率高于完整家庭。然而，单亲母亲正常家庭的发生率低于完整临床家庭。与家庭成员的特定互动模式相比，完整家庭与单亲母亲家庭这一因素在理解攻击行为方面似乎不那么重要。
