Adams P L, Horovitz J H
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 1980 Spring;10(3):144-55. doi: 10.1007/BF01433627.
Using the same 201 impoverished, urban dwelling black and Cuban refugee mothers from their previous study ""Psychopathology & Fatherlessness in Poor Boys,'' Adams and Horovitz examine the coping sytles of these women. The differing groups of mothers were classified according to their firstborn son's ages, their ethnicity and the presence or absence of a father in their household. Scored according to scales L, F, K, 1--4, and 6--9 of the MMPI, the women were profiled and a descriptive comparison employed. In most instances the null hypothesis was confirmed: mothers of fathered boys did not differ in their coping strategies from mothers of fatherless boys regardless of the family's ethnicity and the boy's psychopathology or age. Of note was the high scores in the ""paranoia'' scale of MMPI, indicating that it may be functional and adaptive to use projection in an urban slum.
亚当斯和霍洛维茨利用他们之前研究《贫困男孩的精神病理学与父性缺失》中的200名贫困城市黑人及古巴难民母亲，研究了这些女性的应对方式。这些不同组别的母亲是根据其长子的年龄、种族以及家庭中是否有父亲来分类的。这些女性按照明尼苏达多相人格调查表（MMPI）的L、F、K、1 - 4以及6 - 9量表进行评分，然后进行剖析并采用描述性比较。在大多数情况下，零假设得到证实：无论家庭种族、男孩的精神病理学状况或年龄如何，有父亲陪伴男孩的母亲与没有父亲陪伴男孩的母亲在应对策略上并无差异。值得注意的是，MMPI的“偏执狂”量表得分较高，这表明在城市贫民窟中使用投射防御机制可能具有功能性和适应性。
