Responses to an Eriksonian personality instrument by 174 female subjects were statistically analyzed to examine the factor structure of the scale and also to consider whether the results are consistent with earlier findings. The two factors derived, termed retrogression and actualization, seemed to support the bipolar nature of the instrument and to be consistent with the two basic dimensions of human personality suggested by Erikson.
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