| Abstract: | In a study with 32 female undergraduates, Ss who differed on a measure of parental identification discussed public and private areas of experience during dyadic interviews. Supporting the assumption that fathers are crucial to the expressive-role development of daughters, Ss who identified primarily with their father rather than with their mother were more personally disclosing overall and talked longer and maintained greater spontaneity on private topics. Contrary to expectation, daughters who identified with conventional-role parents vs sex-role reversed parents did not differ in expressive behaviors. Daughters who modeled after conventional-role mothers were least expressive with their interviewer, however. Implications of sex role identification in the counseling relationship are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
