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Relationship of family environment and personality characteristics: Canonical analyses of self‐attributions
Author(s) -
Fowler Patrick C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198210)38:4<804::aid-jclp2270380419>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , family environment scale , canonical correlation , attribution , cohesion (chemistry) , existentialism , social psychology , character (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , confirmatory factor analysis , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , chemistry , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , geometry , organic chemistry , epistemology
Presented replication of a two‐factor model of the Family Environment Scale's structure (Fowler, 1981; Fowler, in press) and investigated its relation to personality characteristics of two samples of university undergraduates ( N = 64 and N = 76). Both factors (“cohesion vs. conflict” and “organization‐control”) showed an excellent level of correspondence to those previously reported. Canonical correlation analyses of the dependencies of factor scores derived from the Family Environment Scale and ones from the Personality Research Form revealed the presence of stable interfaces. Implications are discussed for further work in constructing a theoretical pragmatics of character and action by consistently applying techniques of structural analysis augmented by the insights of existential theory.