Bed wetting and emotional disorder: an "interactionist" model.
Twenty-two of 94 4-year-olds in a nursery schools sample in a working class area wet their beds at least once a week. The enuresis was significantly associated with other behavioural items which could be interpreted as representing general emotional immaturity. A malaise score of the enuretics' mothers was higher than that of the remaining mothers. It is suggested that from these results can be seen the beginning of a damaging interaction which could lead to emotional disorder in the child.
D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications*; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004775:Enuresis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations