title: Father-absent and father-present families of disturbed and nondisturbed adolescents.
abstract: In a study of intact and of father-absent families, male adolescent disturbance in both groups was found to be related to less warm, supportive, and expressive intrafamilial relations; less of a family orientation toward personal growth; and less successful participation in extrafamilial involvement. Disturbance in father-absent boys was not related to negative father-typing by the mother or maternal restrictions, and the findings do not support the assumption of family conditions peculiar to the father-absent home as a factor in adolescent pathology.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology*; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D004243:Divorce; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012380:Role; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization