Vulnerability to emotional disturbances in fathers of neurotic and psychotic children

ABSTRACT

In the present research the level of anxiety among fathers of neurotic and psychotic children was studied. IPAT anxiety Scale was used followed by an interview to obtain information and history from them. Three hundred fathers participated in the study. Hundred fathers had neurotic children, hundred had psychotic children and hundred had normal children. A chi-square test was computed for the statistical analysis of the data and hypotheses were significant at. 05 level. It was concluded that the fathers of neurotic children have high sten scores on anxiety scale than the fathers of psychotic children