Note on parental similarity, acceptance of authority, and field independence.
Bieri (1960) suggested that, particularly for males, the combined unconventionality of low acceptance of authority and greater perceived similarity to the opposite sexed parent would be associated with high field independence. This study challenged that argument suggesting that a mixture of conventional and unconventional personality variables, i.e., low acceptance of authority, same sex parental similarity or high acceptance of authority, opposite sex similarity, would be associated with higher field independence than consistently conventional or unconventional combinations of variables. 66 female and 57 male students completed an embedded-figures test, an acceptance of authority scale, and a semantic differential measure of perceived similarity to parents. The hypothesis was confirmed for males but not females. There were strong differences between these results and those obtained by Bieri with comparable measures.
D001290:Attitude; D001318:Authoritarianism; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D012659:Semantic Differential; D012737:Sex Factors