On psychological resemblance: a questionnaire study of high school students.
A consciously acknowledged or claimed resemblance to one or the other parent is a familiar phenomenon. Despite its familiarity and frequency of occurrence, this phenomenon of being akin to one's kin has received almost no investigative attention. As a consequence, there has been little or no theorizing about how statements such as "I am like my father" should be regarded. Should a statement of this kind be placed somewhere under the rubrics of identification and identity and, if so, specifically where? Does a daughter's claim that she resembles her father in personality more than she does her mother mean that something has gone awry in the identification with her mother? Should the statement "I am not like either parent in personality" be regarded as a sign of an impending identity crisis? With the hope that we might provide some answers to such questions, this questionnaire study was observed.
D000293:Adolescent; D001722:Birth Order; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology