The Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) was administered to 96 women whose children were candidates for placement in a state institution for the mentally retarded. Ss were divided into two groups of equal size: mothers of the severely retarded and mothers of the mildly retarded. The latter group initially obtained significantly higher scores on 15 of the 23 PARI scales. However, when Bell's procedure for isolating the elevation and scatter of the item-response profile was applied, the number of significant differences between the groups proved not to be significantly greater than chance.
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