Families in trouble / Earl Lomon Koos.

  • Koos, Earl Lomon, 1905-1960
Date:
1946
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Credit: Families in trouble / Earl Lomon Koos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inter-Family Effects of Trouble 113 TABLE XII Number of Family Friendships Maintained, by Type of Adequacy Better-than- Below- Total Average Average . Average One 7 — 34 Two 12 1 6 5 Three 17 1 14 2 Four 83 41 Five 53 11 Six or more 11 4 6 1 Totals 60 12 34 14 Averages 3.6 4.7 3.6 2.5 average and the below-average distributions virtually reverse each other. This suggests the fact, well-known to psychiatrists, that well- adjusted personalities make and maintain human relationships bet¬ ter than do less well-adjusted ones. The organization memberships are shown in Table XIII. Here TABLE XIII Number of Formal Organization Affiliations of Adults, by Type of Adequacy again the correlation indicated in the earlier table is repeated, in that the better-than-average families had almost twice as many or¬ ganization memberships as did the below-average families. (The greater average number of memberships [2.88] for average families
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