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Wenn der Vater fehlt: epidemiologische Befunde zur Bedeutung früher Abwesenheit des Vaters für die psychische Gesundheit im späteren Leben

SummaryFacing the increasing number of single-parent-families we investigated the impact of fathers absence within the first six years of childhood on psychic/psychosomatic impairment in later life. We used data from the Mannheim Cohort Study on the Epidemiology of Psychogenic (neurotic spectrum) Di...

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Main Authors: Franz, Matthias (Author) , Schmitz, Norbert (Author) , Lieberz, Klaus (Author) , Schepank, Heinz (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 1999
In: Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
Year: 2005, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 260-278
ISSN:2196-8349
DOI:10.13109/zptm.1999.45.3.260
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Author Notes:Matthias Franz, Norbert Schmitz, Klaus Lieberz, Heinz Schepank
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Summary:SummaryFacing the increasing number of single-parent-families we investigated the impact of fathers absence within the first six years of childhood on psychic/psychosomatic impairment in later life. We used data from the Mannheim Cohort Study on the Epidemiology of Psychogenic (neurotic spectrum) Disorders for a comparison of extreme groups with a favourable or bad course of clinical impairment. In adition we performed regression analysis of the long term course of clinical impairment for the total follow-up sample (mean follow-up intervall 11 years, N=301) with psychometric, clinical and childhood variables. The absence of the probands father (> six months within the first six years of life) was a significant independend predictor of clinical impairment in later life, accompanied by clinical and psychometric variables. A significant and increasing impairment existed even in 73 of 125 older probands (birth cohort 1935), who missed their father in early childhood. The sociopolitical implications of these findings are discussed.
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ISSN:2196-8349
DOI:10.13109/zptm.1999.45.3.260

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