In this study 76 college students who perceived their mothers as having been permissive in their childrearing techniques tended to offer more responses to a divergent thinking task than did 152 college students who had perceived their mothers as having been restrictive with them. Generally speaking, the dimensions of perceived parental warmth versus perceived parental hostility as well as sex of students did not contribute to the results.
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