Brief ReportMaternal Personality and Distress as Predictors of Child Neglect☆
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The data used in this study were made available by the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) at Cornell University. Data from the Family Structure and Functioning in Neglectful Families study were originally collected by James Gaudin. Funding support for preparing the data for public distribution was provided by a contract (90-CA-1496) between the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect and Cornell University. Neither the collector of the original data, the funding agency, nor the NDACAN bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. The author thanks Sidney J. Blatt and Avi Besser for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Golan Shahar, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 25 Park St., New Haven, CT 06519. E-mail: [email protected].