Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 18 No. (2), 1986.
Preliminary communication
The drawing of family and the diagnostics of disorders in children whose parents have been woeking abroad
Vesna Đurić
Zlata Knežević
Jadranka Đukić
Ahmed Delagić
Mirjana Mandić-Kolar
Abstract
A group of 588 children from 14 urban and 12 rural schools (306 males and 282 females) whose parents have been working abroad were tested for the frequences of individual disorders by applying the analysis of the drawing of the family. Out of the total number of observed children 54% show some of the disorder indicators (34% with one, 15% with two, 5% with 3 and 0.3% with four indicators). There is no difference in frequency between the urban and rural children, while considering sex the disorders are more present in the
group of boys. Anxiety is present in 33% of cases, immaturity and dependence in 22%, depression in 17% and aggression and impulsivness in 13%. The boys show in larger extent depression, aggression and avoiding, and girls have more obsesive — compulsive tendencies, anxiety and dependence (subordination). The majority of disorders appears in the age from 9—14. The obtained results present the situation and indicate to further investigations with a more elaborate methodology.
Keywords
disorders in children; family; parents abroad
Hrčak ID:
198442
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1986.
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