title: Personality pattern of parents of mentally retarded children.
abstract: Parents of fifty mentally retarded children were studied for their personality pattern with the help of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire. In fathers and mothers separately, none of the personality traits were observed to vary at statistically significant level in relation to the degree of retardation in their child, but both the parents of mildly retarded children obtained higher score on scale of anxiety, phobia and depression. Analysis of different factors when compared for fathers and mothers together, revealed a higher degree of neurotic traits in mothers.
authors.affiliation: Lect. & Head of the Deptt. of Psychiatry, B. R. D. Medical College, Gorakhpur-273 013.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Rastogi