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Review of 3 Articles on the Homeless Bassuk, E.L. & Rosenberg, L. (1988).

Bassuk, E.L. & Rosenberg, L. (1988). Why does family homelessness occur? A case-control study. American Journal of Public Health, 78(7), 783-788.

This study's stated purpose was to identify correlates of family homelessness. No hypotheses were tested and no research questions were stated.

The review of existing work in the field was relatively brief consisting of about seven studies in which researchers postulated that there were a number of sociodemographic and psychological contributors to family homelessness (e.g., unmet medical needs, lack of social support, psychoemotional problems, social conditions such as poverty, unemployment, etc.)---it was these same sociodemographic and psychological variables that were examined in Bassuk and Rosenberg's study. The authors also reported that no prior studies of the sociodemographic and psychological correlates of family homelessness had conducted systematic comparisons of homelessness and housed families and that the undertaken study consisted of this needed comparative research.

Methods used in the research involved stratified sampling techniques used to obtain two subject groups (homeless families and housed families), all of whom were currently living in low-income areas of Boston, were headed by females, and were poor. In other words, homeless families containing both parents and single father-headed families were not included in the study and it cannot be known as to whether findings generalize to these groups.

Interviews were conducted with family members (including children). At least a moderate degree of confidence can be placed in the reliability and validity of interview data because the study used standardized structured interview techniques (e.g. The Social Support Network Inventory) administered by psychiatrists and/or child psychologists as well as some standardized questionnaires such as The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Both univariate and mult...

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