An empirical study of parentification and personality

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This article examines the hypotheses that parentification can predict three sets of personality characteristics: masochistic or self-defeating, overt narcissistic, and compulsive. Separate regression analyses were run for males and females, with parentification used to predict these personality characteristics, as measured on the MCMI-II. Results indicated that for both genders, parentification was a significant predictor of masochistic and narcissistic personality, but not compulsive characteristics. The results lend preliminary support to the authors' theory that parentification can manifest in two different, but related, forms depending upon the type of familial inducement.

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