Various support systems may malfunction in children's lives. The Personal History Inventory for Children was developed to survey teachers' perceptions of the functionality of several such support systems. Reliability of the scale over 1 mo. was quite high whether the children rated were from intact families (r = .93) or divorced families (r = .80). Results from the first assessment of teachers were generally significantly correlated with the 156 children's evaluations of themselves and of their parents, particularly if these children were from intact families.
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