109 male college juniors were administered the Role Construct Repertory Test to investigate whether measures of perceived similarity to one's parents are equivalent to perceived similarity to adults in general. The former tended to be consistent with the measures of perceived similarity to some “other adults” and inconsistent with measures of perceived similarity to other “other adults.” Thus, perceived similarity to parents may generalize to other adults because of common characteristics other than adultness between parents and other adults. A sweeping generalization that measures of perceived similarity to parents are equivalent to perceived similarity to adults in general is not warranted.
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