Paternal Absence and Its Effect On Adolescent Self-Esteem

Thomas W. Miller
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Thomas W. Miller: Veterans Administration Medical Center University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1984, vol. 30, issue 4, 293-296

Abstract: Recent research has indicated that father absence is significantly related to self- concept of black adolescent males. Results suggest that where paternal absence exists in the home situation, the level of self-esteem tended to be affected more for males than for females. Where father was absent in the home, males tended also to have lower levels of self-esteem than females. Where self-esteem of the child and core-facilitative conditions in mother were correlated significantly (p

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408403000406

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