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M Godkin
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Relationships between dysfunctional parenting and adolescent symptoms.
This study used self-report measures to examine the relationships of parenting practices to seven emotional, behavioral, and somatic symptoms of 66 high school seniors. Dysfunctional parenting, characterized by teens' perceptions of conflict, criticism, negative behavior management, and child dependency, was significantly associated with symptoms experienced by adolescents. Statistical models for each of the seven symptoms indicated that: symptoms of boys were more related to dysfunctional parenting than those of girls; non-parenting variables were only associated with symptoms of girls; and dysfunctional parenting was related more to symptoms of internalizing in boys and externalizing in girls. In addition, conflict with fathers was the parenting variable that was the most predictive of symptoms in both girls and boys, even though both reported having more conflicts with mothers. Dysfunctional parenting by mothers was statistically associated with symptoms but generally contributed less to the models, especially for girls. These findings suggest avenues for early intervention with parents by family physicians when adolescents have certain symptoms.
Adolescent↗
Why students chose family medicine: state schools graduating the most family physicians.
This study identifies factors which influenced a career choice of family practice by students from the class of 1990 in the public medical schools that have graduated the most family physicians in the last decade. One hundred and thirty-nine new graduates who entered family practice residencies in 1990 responded to a questionnaire that determined the importance of curricula, teachers, departmental support, practice characteristics, and personal issues in decision making. Practice characteristics of family practice and the clinical curriculum were found to be the most important influences. Differences among subjects on the basis of their levels of interest in family practice prior to medical school were examined. Educational considerations, related to curricula and teachers, were more important to those students with little or no prior interest, whereas practice characteristics and personal issues were more important to students with high levels of prior interest. Implications for educational planning are discussed.
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