Children of Returned Prisoners of War: Are There Really Second Generational Effects

Abstract

An attempt was made to replicate the Dahl and McCubbin (1974-1975) finding that the children of American prisoners of war repatriated from Vietnam scored below the California Test of Personality (CTP) norms on social and personal adjustment. Results indicated no significant differences between the RPW children and a matched control group on any of the CTP scales. Further analyses revealed that the control children were also below the CTP norms on social and personal adjustment. The meaningfulness of the original Dahl and McCubbin (1974-1975) finding was challenged on the basis that the 1953 normative data were obsolete. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 1978
Accession Number
ADA101505

Entities

People

  • D. S. Nice

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Biomedical Research
  • California
  • Community Relations
  • Continents
  • Education
  • Families (Human)
  • Geographic Regions
  • Human Development
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Families
  • Personality
  • Prisoners
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.