RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE CORRELATES WITHIN THE CONSTRUCT OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER IDENTIFICATION; MUTUAL IDENTIFICATION, ATTACHMENT, CONFLICT AND IDENTITY IN ADULT POLISH-AMERICAN WOMEN.
Contributors: Wayne State University.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Sociology, Individual and Family Studies.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: There has been relatively little written about women's relationships with other women, and in particular, about the adult mother-daughter relationship. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the following correlates within the construct of mother-daughter identification: Attachment, mutual identification, conflict and identity. Theories on the identification phenomenon, as well as Roger's Principle of Integrality formed the theoretical foundation for this investigation. Based on the investigator's theoretical development of the construct of mother-daughter identification, a structural equation model was developed and tested. Utilizing a convenience sampling plan, eighty-one, Polish-American mother-daughter dyads participated in this ex-post facto, correlational study. Each participant was given four instruments to complete, as well as a demographic data form and an open-ended questionnaire. The dyad was the unit of analysis. The data from the four instruments were analyzed using the LISREL IV program and the open-ended questionnaire was content analyzed. Using several different measures of data/model fit, the structural equation model proposed in this study was determined to have adequate fit with the data. However, because the explained variance within each individual equation was low to moderate the study hypotheses were generally unsupported by the data. Secondarily, a step-wise multiple regression analysis was performed using a daugher's conflict with her mother as the dependent variable. This analysis revealed several statistically significant relationships among the study variables and provided empirical support for an altered model. This study concluded with recommendations for future research.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-04, Section: A, page: 1027.

Thesis (PH.D.)--WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1987.

School code: 0254.