Do Perceived Parents' Actions Differentially Correlate with Students' Ratings of Themselves and Their Parents across Familial Configurations?

Abstract

In the present study 212 high school students described how loving or hateful they perceived their parents' actions to be toward one another on the Revised Love/Hate Checklist, and also evaluated their parents and themselves on the Personal Attribute Inventory. On the checklist, perceptions by students from intact families of their parents' actions were significantly correlated with each other as well as with their ratings of their parents and their own self-ratings. Such correlations were not generally observed for students of the other four familial configurations. Implications are discussed.