Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 18 No. (2), 1986.
Preliminary communication
Psychoneurotic disorders and behavioural disturbances in primary school children whose parents are employed abroad
Ljiljana Radanović-Grgurić
Slavica Matić
Ivana Maričak
Zlata Knežević
Jadranka Đukić
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychoneurotic disorders and behavioural disturbances are more frequent in schoolchildren whose parents work abroad than in their peers living with their parents. We examined 26 children aged 6 to 15 years, whose parents work abroad and 26 children of the same age who live with their parents. Both groups of children attended »B. Maslarić« primary school in Borovo. Psychoneurotic disorders were frequent in both groups of schoolchildren. They were found in 76.92% of children in the experimental group and in 61.54% of children in the control group. Psychological treatment revealed statistically significant differences in the frequency of neurotic reactions between the experimental group (53.85%) and the control group (26.92%). The differences between the experimental and control groups in the manifestations of the feeling of rejection, intellectual immaturity and the frequency of behavioural disturbances were highly significant. The respective proportions of these disorders were: 53.85%, 38.46% and 61.54% in the experimental group as compared to 11.54%, 0.0% and 23.08% in the control group. These facts show that children living in incomplete families are psychologically more vulnerable than their peers. The relatively high frequency of disorders in the control group raises the question of the nature of relationships in complete families and of their influence on the development of childhood psychoneuroses.
Keywords
behavioural disturbances; migration; Primary school »Božidar Maslarić« Borovo; psychoneurotic disorders; schoolchildren
Hrčak ID:
198936
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1986.
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