Families of Missing Children : Psychological Consequences and Promising Interventions in the United States, 1989-1991 Chris Hatcher.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6140.

ICPSR ; 6140

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR Version, 2006-03-30.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This study was conducted to examine the psychological reactions experienced by families of missing children and to evaluate families' utilization of and satisfaction with intervention services. To address issues of psychological consequences, the events occurring prior to child loss, during the experience of child loss, and after child recovery (if applicable) were studied from multiple perspectives within the family by interviewing parents, spouses, siblings, and, when possible, the missing child. A sample of 249 families with one or more missing children were followed with in-home interviews, in a time series measurement design. Three time periods were used: Time Series 1, within 45 days of disappearance, Time Series 2, at 4 months post-disappearance, and Time Series 3, at 8 months post-disappearance. Three groups of missing children and their families were studied: loss from alleged nonfamily abduction (stranger), loss by alleged family or parental abduction, and loss by alleged runaway. Cases were selected from four confidential sites in the United States. The files in this collection consist of data from detailed structured interviews (Parts 1-22) and selected quantitative nationally-normed measurement instruments (Parts 23-33). Structured interview items covered: (1) family of origin for parents of the missing child or children, (2) demographics of the current family with the missing child or children, (3) conditions in the family before the child's disappearance, (4) circumstances of the child's disappearance, (5) perception of the child's disappearance, (6) missing child search, (7) nonmissing child, concurrent family stress, (8) coping with the child's disappearance, (9) coping with a nonmissing child, concurrent family stress, (10) missing child recovery, if applicable, (11) recovered child reunification with family, if applicable, and (12) resource and assi... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06140

Contents:

Part 1: Family Information Sheet Data

Primary Respondent; Part 2: Family History Questionnaire and First Missing ChildData, Time Series 1

Primary Respondent; Part 3: Family History Questionnaire and First Missing ChildData, Time Series 1

Partner; Part 4: Sibling Questionnaire Data, Time Series 1; Part 5: Second Missing Child Questionnaire Data, Time Series 1

Primary Respondent; Part 6: Second Missing Child Questionnaire Data, Time Series 1

Partner; Part 7: Family History Questionnaire Data, Time Series 2

Primary Respondent; Part 8: Family History Questionnaire Data, Time Series 2

Partner; Part 9: Sibling Questionnaire Data, Time Series 2; Part 10: Missing Child Questionnaire Data, Time Series 2; Part 11: Family History Questionnaire Data, Time Series 3

Primary Respondent; Part 12: Family History Questionnaire Data, Time Series 3

Partner; Part 13: Sibling Questionnaire Data, Time Series 3; Part 14: Missing Child Questionnaire Data, Time Series 3; Part 1...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Start: 1989; and end: 1991.

OCLC:

61156509

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.