Notar M, McDaniel S A
Adolescence. 1986 Spring;21(81):11-21.
In spite of the growing amount of research on women's issues, there are few empirical studies of mother-daughter relationships, and almost none on the effects of the major women's movement of our times on relationships between mothers and daughters. In this study of late adolescent daughters' perceptions of their relationships with their mothers, two alternative hypotheses are examined: (1) feminism, with its emphasis on bonding among women, strengthens relations between adolescent daughters and their mothers, or (2) feminism as a force of social change, both attitudinal and behavioral, weakens the adolescent daughter-mother relationship. Based on 102 questionnaires completed by university-age women in the winter of 1983, it was found that the majority of daughters who have a good relationship with their mothers see both themselves and their mothers as feminist. However, these daughters do not attribute their positive mother-daughter relationship explicitly to feminism. For the minority of daughters who claim to have a poor relationship with their mothers, they attribute the problems to feminism.
尽管对女性问题的研究数量不断增加，但关于母女关系的实证研究却很少，几乎没有研究探讨我们这个时代主要的女性运动对母女关系的影响。在这项关于青春期后期女儿对她们与母亲关系认知的研究中，检验了两种相互对立的假设：（1）强调女性之间亲密关系的女权主义加强了青春期女儿与母亲之间的关系，或者（2）作为一种社会变革力量，在态度和行为上都有所体现的女权主义削弱了青春期女儿与母亲的关系。基于1983年冬天102名大学适龄女性填写的问卷，研究发现，与母亲关系良好的大多数女儿认为自己和母亲都是女权主义者。然而，这些女儿并没有明确将她们积极的母女关系归因于女权主义。对于少数声称与母亲关系不好的女儿来说，她们将问题归咎于女权主义。
