The study partially supported the social power model of parental identification for 64 female and 47 male Armenian-American adolescents. The results suggested a possible interaction of identification by sex and identification by perceived power. Perceived power and identification correlated moderately for the same rather than the cross-sex parents. Girls perceived mothers to have more power than boys, while they did not differ on the perception of fathers' over-all power. Fathers were perceived to be strongest in Outcome Control power and mothers in Referent power.
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