The influence of the sun, moon, climate and economic conditions on crisis incidence

✍ Scribed by Phillip Snoyman; T. LenHoldstock

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 772 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198010)36:4<884::aid-jclp2270360408>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

A discriminant analysis, cross-checked by a stepwise multiple regression analysis, found that the 77 items could classify correctly 96% of the cases as abusers or nonabusers. The stepwise regressions further revealed that as few as 15 of the items could explain 50% of the variance in abuse.

To gain a better understanding of what the predictor items were measuring, a principal axis factoring with promax rotations was performed. This yielded seven factors interpreted as (1) distress; (2) rigidity; (3) having a child with problems; (4) problems from family and others; ( 5 ) unhappiness; (6) loneliness; and (7) negative concept of child and of self. Using t-tests, factor scores for these dimensions all significantly distinguished abusers from nonabusers. However, multiple regressions found that only the unhappiness, rigidity and distress dimensions had any appreciable independent effects on abuse.