The hypotheses of the current study attempt to expand and refine what is currently known about the relationship between family types and actual behavioral adjustment as reported by older adolescents. High school seniors (N=2250 in 14 high schools in the middle South region) indicated their level of personal participation in a variety of problem…

This paper presents results of a study of how family dysfunction contributes to adjustment of adolescents. The question is considered from two disciplinary vantage points: (1) structural anthropology, which considers dysfunction in terms of the affirmation of kinship relations; and (2) a family systems approach which emphasizes the role of factors…

Nearly 30 years ago, research showed that preschool children reared by parents with differing parenting attitudes or styles, differed in their degrees of social competence. To test this theory, a two-year study was conducted. During "Year 1," 2,250 high school seniors and 406 university freshmen from the middle South were surveyed…