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- Title
ACCULTURATION AND MENTAL HEALTH OF MENNONITE CHILDREN.
- Authors
Kurokawa, Minako
- Abstract
This paper deals with the impact of social change on the mental health of Mennonite children who have been brought up in a closed society. Interviews were conducted with 460 Mennonite children and their mothers belonging to traditional, transitional, and progressive church orders. Hy- potheses were tested that (a) traditional Mennonite children are relatively free from overt symptoms of maladjustment but not from covert symptoms and that (b) transitional Mennonite children who experience value conflict are likely to show symptoms of mental disturbances, indicating that the adaptive change undertaken by the church is not adequate for the prevention of personality disturbance.
- Subjects
MENNONITE children; CHRISTIAN children; CHURCH orders; MENTAL health; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
- Publication
Child Development, 1969, Vol 40, Issue 3, p689
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1127181