milar maternal personality types engendering the disorders. Thus, the study provides not only a linkage between the assessed personality characteristics in mothers and the offspring's development of borderline disorder but also between the assessed personality characteristics of the mother and the development of schizophrenia.
Regarding the theoretical foundations of the study, one further point needs to be made. This point relates to the study's test instrument used to measure emotional instability emotional coldness, and controlling tendencies. This study's measurement of these characteristics consists of three scales on Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Inventory, the 16PF. According to Cattell and Stice (1962), the three scales of interest can be characterized as follows:
(1) The A Scale - The test developers state that this scale measures emotional coldness along a continuum anchored at the low end by a reserved, detached, critical and cold personality and, at the high end, by an outgoing, warmhearted, easy going and
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