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Relations Between Minuchin's Structural Family Model and Kohut's Self‐Psychology Constructs
Author(s) -
Perosa Linda
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1996.tb01884.x
Subject(s) - psychology , canonical correlation , variance (accounting) , social psychology , hierarchy , self psychology , expression (computer science) , personality , exploratory factor analysis , self , developmental psychology , psychometrics , mathematics , statistics , market economy , accounting , computer science , economics , business , programming language
This study examined the relations between S. Minuchin's (1974) structural family model and H. Kohut's (1971) self‐psychology constructs. A total of 164 college women completed the Structural Family Interaction Scale‐Revised (SFIS‐R), the Parental Relations Inventory (PRI), and the Goal Instability and Superiority scales from the Self‐Expression Inventory. Two factors, Proximity‐Differentiation and Generational Hierarchy‐Differentiation, accounting for 90% of the variance, emerged from an exploratory factor analysis of the SFIS‐R and PRI. The results of canonical correlation analysis, with the 2 factors included as predictor variables and the 2 scales measuring self‐expression as the dependent variables, indicated that women raised in families with strong cross‐generational alliances are likely to display narcissistic personality traits and to have difficulty setting goals. Implications for counseling are presented.