Abstract
Lambert, W. W., Johansson, G., Frankenhaeuser, M. & Klackenberg‐Larsson, I. Catecholamine excretion in young children and their parents as related to behavior. Scand. J. Psychol., 1969, 10, 306–318. — Catecholamine excretion in 100 children and their parents was examined in relation to the children's behavior and to data on the parents' disciplinary procedures: (a) children's adrenaline excretion was positively correlated with their intellectual level, (b) their noradrenaline excretion was positively correlated with that of their mothers, as well as with both parents' age at the birth of the child, (c) mothers' adrenaline excretion was positively correlated with the frequency at which the fathers punished their children by smacking, and (d) fathers' noradrenaline excretion was negatively correlated with their own as well as with their wives' frequency of smacking their children.
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