| Abstract: | THE PSYCHOANALYTIC HYPOTHESIS THAT ORAL DEPENDENT PEOPLE ARE DEPENDENT AND NEED SUPPORT AND APPROVAL FROM OTHERS WAS TESTED BY COMPARING THE ORAL IMAGERY SHOWN ON THE RORSCHACH TEST OF 23 UNDERGRADUATE MALE YIELDERS AND 21 MALE NONYIELDERS IN AN ASCH CONFORMITY EXPERIMENT. AS PREDICTED, THE YIELDERS GAVE MORE ORAL DEPENDENT RESPONSES ON THE RORSCHACH THAN THE NONYIELDERS (P = .025). THE RELATIONSHIP OF BIRTH ORDER TO ORAL IMAGERY WAS ALSO EXAMINED, WITH LATER-BORN SS GIVING MORE ORAL DEPENDENT RESPONSES THAN THOSE WHO WERE 1ST-BORN OR ONLY CHILDREN (P = .05). ORAL SADISTIC RESPONSES WERE UNRELATED BOTH TO YIELDING BEHAVIOR AND TO BIRTH ORDER. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
