A different sample of 84 college students' relationships with their parents were surveyed in a replication one year after the original study. While sign tests showed significantly higher over-all ratings for relationships with mothers (good) than with fathers (average to good), daughters rated their relationships with their mothers (good) as significantly higher than those with their fathers (average to good), yet sons rated mothers and fathers about equally (average to good). These data are interpreted in terms of conditioning and social learning theory.
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