Using a seven-point scale, the students rated their parents' level of restrictiveness versus permissiveness and their level of warmth versus hostility. The results showed that the students' self-concepts were directly related to the mothers' and fathers' warmth/hostility scores; however, there was no significant relationship between self-concept and either parent's restrictiveness/permissiveness score. Individual parents were rated more highly if they were perceived as being warm and permissive rather than hostile and restrictive. Opposite-sex parents' level of warmth was correlated with how each parent was evaluated, suggesting that mothers' actions may affect how fathers are perceived, and vice versa. 1 table and 16 references