Administered a sex-role questionnaire to determine the sex-role stereotypes of 200 male and female junior high school age adolescents. Also studied their views concerning the social desirability of feminine and masculine traits. Results found positive nonstereotyped traits were rated as relatively feminine, and negative nonstereotyped traits as…

Examined reported amounts of time adolescents (N=52) spent in various types of household work. Findings indicated sex-role stereotyping in adolescents' time use. Females spent more time in housework than males. Found majority of adolescents contributing some time to household work, and discusses related variables. (RC)

Examines the emotional and relational components of body image in French (N=80) and American (N=60) adolescents. Results indicate that major cultural differences arose from the belief that the real body and the ideal body coincide. Gender differences centered more on the level of control of body changes and on self-assessment modes. (RJM)

Surveyed high school students (N=268) comparing those who had and had not taken sex education classes. Results indicated that gender identity exerts a significant impact on sexual attitudes and knowledge. Age and grade achievement influence sexual behavior. (RC)

Studied the extent of loneliness of late adolescents in a midwestern university in relation to selected variables and in comparison to other groups. Found that women were lonelier than men, and that there was a relationship between loneliness an ease of making friends and loneliness and happiness during the past year. (Author/ABB)

Examined sexual activity of Nigerian high school youth. Students (N=240) responded to a questionnaire. Results indicated that boys and girls differed significantly in their sexual behavior. Found considerable differences in sexual behavior due to age. (RC)

Investigated factors influencing truancy from a juvenile court treatment facility. Youth placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables. Males with prior adjudication for truancy had a 65% probability of eloping from the court facility. Females showed a 62% probability of truancy. Personality…

Male and female college students in several countries assessed various forms of social behavior in this study of cross-cultural agreement in moral judgments. (MP)

Two subgroups of delinquent girls: antisocial offenders and sexual delinquents, were compared to a matched group of nondelinquent girls on the Gough Femininity Scale. Both delinquent groups showed deviant conscious sex roles, the antisocial group having extremely masculine identification and the sexual delinquents slightly exaggerated femininity.…

Path model illustrating relationships between church attendance, delinquent peer association, tendency to neutralize delinquency, and self-reported delinquent behavior was compared between males and females and between Mexican-American and Anglo college students (N=694). In all four subsamples, strongest paths were between neutralization and…

Examines the role of individual differences (gender and race) on the stress-illness relationship among adolescents. Results based on 119 participants reveal that stress and anxiety were positively correlated with reported illness. Race and gender differences did emerge, although no gender differences were found with regard to the experience of…

Surveyed alcohol use patterns among Mexican American (N=402) and Anglo American (N=116) college students. Results indicated significant differences in whether or not students drank, with whom they drank, how frequently, where, and what they drank. Found ethnicity had the strongest influence. (Author/RC)

Examines gender differences in domain-specific areas of identity development among college youth (N=210). Also explores gender comparisons of relationships among domains. Results indicate that males were more likely to explore and commit in politics, whereas females were more likely to explore in sex roles and to commit in religion and dating.…

Investigated the relationship of several demographic variables, family structure and family environment among 68 official chronic delinquents and 130 official nondelinquents. Results indicated that 10 variables explained 49 percent of the variance between the chronic delinquent and nondelinquent groups. Personal growth had most discriminating…

Compared perceptions of adolescents (N=35) and their parents (N=45) on 20 personality characteristics. Differences between parent and adolescent views were much less extreme than the differences found by Hess and Goldblatt in their 1957 study. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant differences on any of the variables examined:…