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Congenital disability : Cultural variations in parental attitudes.

This is a comparative study of cultural variations in parental attitudes towards children with viaible congenital disab1lities. These attitudes were compared with the respective cultural value orientations of three ethnic groups in Montreal, (English-Canadian, Italian-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian). The three samples consisted of thirty-one members of children from lower-middle class families, who attend the Cerebral Palsy Clinic at the Montreal Children's Hospital. An interview was conducted with eacb mother to elicit underlying attitudes to her child and to establiah her basic cultural value orientations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116801
Date January 1965
CreatorsBogo, Marion., Porter, Margaret J., Wu, Aileen., Wertheimer, Dror.
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Social Work. (School of Social Work.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library.

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