Abstract
Various attempts to measure parental identification have been seriously criticized. The present paper describes a new psychometric technique for measuring identification and discusses a large number of studies in which the technique has been employed. The nature of the relationships obtained between the identification scale and several relevant variables (level of adjustment, sex identity, conscience development, and ordinal position of the child; model attributes, nurturance, and social power of the parents; maternal approval of the father as a model) were consistent with theory and with prior empirical findings. It was concluded that the evidence supports the construct validity of the identification measure.
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