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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1995
Reports of parenting styles were assessed in 100 mostly white, middle-class, 6th, 8th, and 10th graders and their parents. Adolescents viewed their parents as more permissive and more authoritarian than parents viewed themselves, whereas parents viewed themselves as more authoritative than did adolescents. Differences were primarily over the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Middle Class Parents, Middle Class Students
Minami, Masahiko – 1995
Personal narratives of 20 middle-class Japanese preschoolers, half of them 4 years old and half 5 years old, and their mothers were analyzed using stanza analysis and high point analysis. The patterning in stanzas yielded the following: (1) with regard to the proportion of three-verse stanzas, there were no differences between the groups of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Robinson, Susan Smith; Dixon, Rhonda G. – 1992
A study compared the oral and written language concepts of preschoolers from low- and middle-income homes. Subjects, 33 4-year-olds from 3 separate Head Start programs and 31 4-year-olds from three different private schools, were administered 9 informal language assessments in the fall and again in the spring. Parents of the subjects were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Emergent Literacy
Petersen, Anne C. – 1986
A longitudinal study of early adolescents examined gender differences in attitude and behavior, as well as the effects of pubertal change, parental expectations, and parental support. It was hypothesized that sex differences would emerge during preadolescence and that males' and females' rates of change would be significantly different. Subjects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences
Harper, Lawrence V. – 1995
Most research on the long-term outcomes of early enrichment programs for low-income children suggests that the effects of Head Start participation and similar experiences are to help narrow the gap between academic achievement of low-income and higher-income children. The failure of children from low-income families to excel in public schools has…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Child Caregivers