Addresses the influence of cultural and ecological backgrounds, as mediated by the family, on children's achievement. Contrasts models used to explain academic successes and failures of African-American and Asian-American children. (PCB)

Results indicate that the achievement level of Black and Hispanic elementary school children is not substantially lower than that of White children of similar socioeconomic status. Beliefs of minority children and their mothers are similar to those typically associated with higher levels of achievement. (PCB)

This paper presents a summary of the findings of the Color Meaning Test I (CMT I), descriptions of the revised Color Meaning Test II (CMT II), and a discussion of the theories of the development of color and racial bias in young children. CMT II data are reported on 160 Euro-American and 160 Afro-American children, ages 40 to 91 months. (Author/CS)

This study was designed to chart the development of racial attitudes in Euro- and Afro-American children (in grades 1-4 of one elementary school) through the administration of the PRAM II procedure. A secondary purpose of the study was to compare the racial attitudes of second graders in several different geographical localities. (CS)

The tape-recorded cries of low- and high-risk newborn infants were rated by 150 inner-city Anglo-American, Black-American, and Cuban-American mothers during the hospital lying-in period following childbirth. Reliable differences were found between low- and high-risk infant cries on all of four perceptual responses, with culture and parental…

Examined maternal support, restrictive control and parent-adolescent conflict of 57 African American female adolescents and their mothers. Found that mothers provided significantly more positive views of their own parenting behavior and of the mother-daughter relationship than did their daughters. Mothers' ratings of maternal restrictive control…

Examined differences among Black, Anglo, Puerto Rican, and Dominican adolescents in the relation between cigarette and alcohol use and psychosocial functioning. (PCB)

In two studies, a total of 213 Black and Mexican-American elementary school children were asked to respond to 8 videotaped scenes of everyday social encounters that occur at school. Actors were unfamiliar peers from the same ethnic group as the subjects. (PCB)

Purposes of this study were to identify certain psychosocial attributes and life experiences of minority adolescent mothers and explore variations in these attributes and experiences in and across age and ethnic groups. (PCB)