Parental Representations and Orality
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 50 (1) , 80-92
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa5001_10
Abstract
One hundred ninety-three undergraduate male subjects were administered a Rorschach orality measure (Masling, Rabie, & Blondheim, 1967), and completed copies of Blatt, Wein, Chevron, and Quinlan's (1981) Parental Representations measure. A significant correlation between orality and quality of parental representations was found, with high oral subjects giving more negative descriptions of the mother than low orals. No relationship between orality and the conceptual level of parental descriptions was found. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of psychodynamic formulations regarding the oral personality.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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