THE CHILD-REARING ATTITUDES OF THE PARENTS OF (MALE AND FEMALE) SCHIZOPHRENICS

It was hypothesised that there exists significant difference between the parents of male and of female schizophrenics and those of the corresponding control group, in the child-rearing attitudes. The experimental group consisted of the 62 pairs of parents of 62 male and 38 pairs of parents of 38 female schizophrenics. A control group of 100 pairs of parents of mentally and physically healthy off-springs were taken. Subjects were matched for intelligence, age, sex, level of education, religion and per capita income and all of them were free from mental illness at any time during their life. The Bengali version of PARI for fathers were used. The results were consistent with the hypotheses. Certain child-rearing attitudes of the parents of schizophrenics were found which were significantly different from the corresponding control groups.