A Comparative Study of Personality and Parent Child Relationship in Children with Internalized and Externalized Disorders

The present study aimed to find out the comparison among children with externalized and internalized disorder and the Control group with respect to different traits of personality and their perception of different aspects of parent child relationships. Sample consisting seven children with externalized disorder and eight children with internalized disorder and eight children in the control group were selected on the basis of the inclusion/exclusion criteria. A semi. Structured interview schedule including socio-demographic and clinical information was administered; children were categorised as having the externalized and internalized features by using the Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (Naglieri et al., 1979); and Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck&Eysenck, 1975), Parent Child Relationship Scale (Rao, 1989) were administered. The obtained data had been analyzed by Kruskal Wallis one way ANOVA. Results reveal that there is a significant difference among children with internalized (ID), externalized (ED) features and control group with respect to rank scores of extraversion, psychoticism, neuroticism, lie score of personality, and perception of different aspects of parent child relationship, i.e., rejecting (from father&mother), demanding (from mother), and neglecting (from mother) symbolic reward (from father), loving (from mother), object reward (from father&mother), neglecting(M) .