3 replicated factors—Acceptance versus Rejection, Psychological Autonomy versus Psychological Control, and Firm Control versus Lax Control were identified from 4 correlation matrices of reports of maternal and of paternal behavior by children and by adults.
Conceptual planes generated by pairs of factors differentiated Acceptance of Individuation from Loving Involvement and Hostile Involvement from Hostile Detachment.
This configurational analysis facilitated the comparison of these results with other analyses of the structure of parent behavior.
A spherical conceptual model for parent behavior is proposed