This paper summarizes the responses of 256 women to a questionnaire which focused on their recent experiences in the process of moving with their families. Typically they are happy with the new community and with the personality changes which have occured as a result of their moving experiences. (Author)

The purpose of the 13th Seminar on Family Research was to submit the theoretical frame to reevaluation, to challenge the legitimacy of the developmental approach as it appeared in the literature of the past decade. (Author)

Interviews conducted with adolescents from 12 to 17 years old and their parents revealed adolescent drinking can be explained by parental models of drinking behavior. Parental socialization factors, particularly support and to a lesser degree control, were also shown to have an effect on the development of adolescent drinking behaviors.…

Explored the relationship between two types of childhood family aggression and severe marital aggression in the next generation of adults (N=2,143). Results indicated that observing hitting between one's parents is more strongly related to involvement in severe marital aggression than is being hit as a teenager by one's parent. (LLL)

The research findings are reviewed under headings that reflect aspects of the wife role as it is defined in the theoretical formulations. In addition, a large body of hitherto unexplained sex differences in marital satisfaction are examined. (Author)

A study was undertaken to determine the nursery school's role in the transmission of sex role expectations. It was found that though the particular school observed was very committed to minimizing this type of socialization, a considerable amount nonetheless took place. (Author)

Examines why exposure to family violence and adolescent dating violence are associated. For both genders, this relationship was mediated by the variables of positive outcome expectations and belief in the conventional rules of society. For males, the relationship was also mediated by the variables of positive outcome expectations and belief in the…

Recognizing that status of the elderly is affected by several economic and familial factors, examined influenece of socialization values and ancestor worship. Found that status of the elderly was systematically higher in societies having conformity as a primary socialization value than in those where self-reliance was emphasized. Ancestor worship…

Using data from a random sample of currently married adults (N=316), log-linear techniques were used to examine five aspects of household division of labor between husbands and wives as these relate to sex of respondent, labor-force status of the wife, and other independent variables. (Author)

Tested relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence using data from sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade students and their parents. Findings indicated concordance is strongly related to the accuracy of offspring perceptions of parents' goals. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that the proportion of extended family members in a kibbutz's population does not itself account for members' power and influence. (Author)

The effects of both vertical and nonvertical dimensions of fathers' work on family relations and vocational socialization are explored through a multivariate analysis of data from several hundred male participants in the 1962-1967 Michigan Student Study. Closeness to father emerged as an important, structurally-related intervening variable.…

Examines the issue of the family of orientation's (distinguished from family of procreation) impact on vocational development. Suggested that the family's influence on vocational development operates along two interdependent dimensions: (1) opportunities provided by the family for the developing individual and (2) socialization practices and…

From socialization theory a relationship is hypothesized between sex-saliency of family and peer group context and level of sexual activity. The hypothesis is confirmed in the case of family context, but the relationship is shown to be curvilinear in the case of the peer group. (Author)

Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)