CHILD DISSOCIATION AND THE FAMILY CONTEXT

Forty boys and their parents completed measures of dissociation, state anxiety, and perceptions of parental behaviors. Mothers completed a b ehavior problems checklist about their sons. The results indicated a c orrespondence between fathers' and sons' dissociation scores. In addit ion, links were found between parental dissociation, parental inconsis tency and rejection, and child dissociation. The findings are discusse d in the context of several recently proposed models of the etiology o f child dissociative disorders.