Measures sixth-grade students' monetary practices in three areas: methods of obtaining money, money-handling practices, and consumer practices. (HOD)

Investigates the effects of social class (middle vs. lower) on verbal and nonverbal maternal controls, maternal sensitivity, and child compliance. Suggests current conceptualizations of lower class mother-child interaction need to be reconsidered since no social class differences were revealed in the experiments. (HOD)

Examines the reactions of children in grades 3-4, 7-8, and 11-12 to boys and girls whose behavior was either masculine-stereotyped or feminine-stereotyped along the dimensions of steadiness/excitability, adventurousness/timidity, and rudeness/politeness. (Author/HOD)

Examines verbal interactions of mothers and fathers with their school-age children (9 and 12 years of age) during structured sessions. Mothers, more than fathers, tend to use more problem-solving behaviors with their 9-year-olds than with their 12-year-olds and boys discriminate more than girls in their use of problem-solving behaviors with…

Self-report data were collected from 100 enuretic children between the ages of 5 and 14 to determine how they viewed their incontinence problem. Although the children were generally unhappy with their wetting, they had a relatively positive view of self and did not exhibit an excessive number of behavior problems. (HOD)

Studies the frequency with which preschool children used 11 play centers, engaged in social and nonsocial activities in each play center, and interacted positively and negatively with each other. (HOD)

Compares the affective reactions of nonretarded second- and third-grade children to those of mildly retarded children to a videotape in which a protagonist's initial behavior (good, bad) was factorially varied with the emotion he experienced in the concluding incident (happy, sad). (HOD)