A sample of 148 homemakers from a population of 835 low-income families from three counties in a midwestern U.S. state were studied in terms of their level of risk for community intervention, economic condition, social-psychological variables, and coping responses. One-way analyses of variance indicated that high risk, marginal, and effective, low-risk families differ mostly on economic factors rather than social-psychological factors.
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