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. 1991 Jul;32(5):757-70.
doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb01900.x.

Determinants of expressed emotion in families of disturbed and normal children

E D Hibbs  1 , S D Hamburger, M Lenane, J L Rapoport, M J Kruesi, C S Keysor, M J Goldstein
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Determinants of expressed emotion in families of disturbed and normal children

E D Hibbs et al. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1991 Jul.

Abstract

Both high expressed emotion (EE) and psychiatric disorders were frequent in the parents of children and adolescents with disruptive behavior disorder (DBD, N = 34) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD, N = 49) compared to normal controls (NC, N = 41). Parental psychiatric diagnosis was significantly related to high-EE in fathers (p = .0002) and mothers (p = .0001) of all groups combined, and in parents of the ill groups (p = .03). Absence of diagnosis was associated with low-EE in fathers (p = .0006) and mothers (p = .04) of the controls. Psychiatric diagnosis was the only significant predictor for high-EE in fathers, while for mothers child's diagnosis was a stronger predictor.

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