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The article presents a study that explores the interrelatedness of identification, empathy, self dissatisfaction and adjustment among individuals in the U.S. It employed subjects who are young enough to reflect active parent-child interactions but mature to use self-report instruments including the Interpersonal Check List (ICL) and the Bell Adjustment Inventory. It includes the participation of the parents of the subjects where the two instruments were administered in two different situations. In the later part of the study, the parent with the same sex as his child took the ICL and filled it twice, first for himself and then to predict the self-description of his child where most of the variables used in the study revealed substantial results for males.

The article presents a study that aims to provide a practical measure of certain important guidelines in a marital relationship. It uses Interpersonal Perception Technique (IPT) on 22 male alcoholic patients and their wives and 26 non-alcoholic couples. IPT requires that both the husband and wife complete the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule which is designed to measure 15 personality traits expressed in terms of social needs. The study found out that the interpersonal relationship between the alcoholic and his wife is characterized by socio-sexual role confusion and by conflicting dependence-independence needs. The results showed that patients are not markedly inferior to the controls on the measures of mutual marital insight which is available in IPT.