Schaeffer's revised version of the Children's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory was administered to 90 male delinquents. Factor analyses of their reports on both fathers and mothers yielded three factors: Rejection vs Acceptance, Psychological Control, and Lax Control. The factor structures were similar in both analyses. The factors bore moderately close resemblance to those obtained by other investigators for different samples.
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