Masculinity, identification, and father-son relationships.

Mussen, Paul; Distler, Luther

doi:10.1037/h0044529

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“…For instance, some studies (66, 67, 69-75) demonstrate a high degree of masculine identification in boys who describe their fathers as warm and nurturant. Other studies (72,74) have demonstrated that highly masculine identified boys having positive feelings for their fathers also thought them to be more limit setting.…”

Section: Early Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Father/son relationship during the preschool years: An integrative review with special reference to recent Swedish findings

Nettelbladt

1983

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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This review is an attempt to integrate Anglo-American and Swedish studies on father/son relationships. The puerperal period, infancy and early childhood are surveyed. Swedish studies do not support specific stereotyped bonding in the puerperal period. The review confirms the bidirectional nature of the father/son relationship. Thus, counteridentification, i.e. the father's identification with his son, and identification during the oedipal phase, i.e. the son's identification with his father, seem to be essential components in the father/son relationship. However, studies on parent-infant behaviour indicate that different parental roles exist early in infancy. Also, attachment studies point to the specificity of the father/son relationship before the oedipal phase. It is concluded that the major importance of the father/son relationship during the preschool years is to facilitate the son's masculine identification.

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Section: Early Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Thus, fathers, who are seen as the heads of their households have more masculine sons (72,75,76,77,78). Further, the greatest fatherhon similarity has been found in families in which the fathers dominate their wives (75,77).…”

Section: Early Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 98%

Father/son relationship during the preschool years: An integrative review with special reference to recent Swedish findings

Nettelbladt

1983

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…It would seem to the writer, however, that in both these instances the availability of other adult models as substitutes for the absent parent could well have been an important variable. There is also the point of the father's salience, to use the term introduced by Mussen and Distler (1959), i.e. his importance in the child's life, as a vital element.…”

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The Role of the Contemporary Father in Rearing Young Children

Taconis

1969

Educational Research

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“…YVe suggest that the groups of young offenders have a stronger tendency through the early stages of the percept-genesis-corresponding hypothetically to early stages of the development of their personnalities-to identify themselves with a female role. It would be appropriate to refer to the findings of L a t z o w ic k (15), M ussen and D istler (17) and P ay n e and M ussen (19), in their investigations on identifica tion in boys and young men.…”

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“…The frequencies of aggression reported by the subjects in pictures Ag 1 (1958 and1959) and Ag 2 (1959) at different exposure levels have been entered into Table I: the figures refer to the number of subjects. For all P-values, the two-tail test has been applied, and '/} corrected for continuity.…”

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