Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:453-454
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Similarities between parents and offspring on a personality inventory
RE Peck and JE Everson
The authors administered a personality inventory that has been used as a
psychiatric screening test to 28 children and their natural parents. By
intercorrelations between the tests of parents and offspring they attempted
to find out whether the offspring resembled the parent of same sex, the
parent of the opposite sex, or a composite of both parents. They found that
the offspring resembled their peer group more often than either parent or a
composite of both parents.
