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M A Counte1, D C Garron, H B Branda
1College of Health Sciences, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract:
Factor analysis of responses by 213 persons to Rabin's Child Study Inventory result in five reliable factors. These five, termed Parental Fatalism, Parental Nurturance, Children's Independence, Parental Instrumentalism, and Children's Happiness, are similar to Rabin's original four parental motives of Altruism, Fatalism, Narcissism, and Instrumentalism. Two basic dimensions by which the five factors may be characterized are (a) whether the parent or child is the object, and (b) whether the feeling is personal or impersonal.
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