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Sibship composition and the adolescent runaway phenomenon

Journal of Youth and Adolescence volume 7, pages 301–305 (1978)Cite this article

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A study of predominately White middle class adolescent runaways was made to determine if a relationship between descriptive variables, family configuration, or birth order variables and the adolescent's decision to run away from home could be found. It was found that runaways tended to come from larger than average families and that the majority (54.9%) were either from families where all siblings were of the opposite sex or where there was a very young sibling.

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  1. Assistant Professor of Statistics, Graduate student in statistics, University of California, Riverside

    N. S. Johnson & Roxy Peck

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  1. N. S. Johnson
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Received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Research interest is nonparametric statistics and its applications.

Research interest is applied probability.

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Johnson, N.S., Peck, R. Sibship composition and the adolescent runaway phenomenon. J Youth Adolescence 7, 301–305 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537980

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Keywords

  • Health Psychology
  • Middle Class
  • Birth Order
  • Order Variable
  • Average Family