Adolescent psychologists readily acknowledge the role that peer expectations and pressures may play in causing youth to act in ways that conflict with previously assimilated attitudes and beliefs. However, minimal research has been focused on self-presentational behavior during adolescence. This study was designed to determine whether the…

A student participatory model, developed to combat a drug problem, could be helpful in solving other school problems. (Author/MLF)

A university student describes her experiences as a peer mentor in the "Keep Youth in School" program. She recounts the benefits the program provides through its tutoring, mentorship, and employment projects. Young foster children enjoy activities, friendships, and encouragement that they might not find outside of the program. (SO)

Examines the influence of parents, peers, and partners on teenage women's contraceptive-seeking behavior and identifies sources of variation in the amount and direction of influence. (Author/ABB)

Analysis of questionnaire responses of 112 males between the ages of 10 and 14 revealed intention to use smokeless tobacco correlated significantly with attitude toward the behavior and perceived social pressure. Significant differences between those who intended to use smokeless tobacco and those who did not were found on several outcome and…

Explores the roles of mothers, fathers, television, and street culture as significant others and socializing agents for Black youth. Also discusses how significant others might be used to foster achievement. (CMG)

The effect of social facilitation, particularly the impact of perceived evaluation and relative competence of handicapped learners, was tested for efficacy in predicting 26 learning disabled elementary children's oral reading performance. Results revealed that children who read with similar-ability peers performed significantly better than with…

Perhaps the most well known treatment modalities in the field of prevention and treatment of addiction are groups. Group settings serve to bring individuals with addictions together at one time in one place to work on relevant issues together. Groups may serve as a safe environment for learning new social and relationship skills, gaining…

Describes the group debriefing sessions at Gallaudet College, which provide a forum for cooperative education students to share experiences, to put them in perspective with other deaf students, and to receive peer support. Includes the debriefing questionnaire and recommendations for adoption by other colleges. (JOW)

The institutionalized retarded group was found to be more imitative on the first task. For all groups, peers as opposed to adults were found to be the more salient model on the second task than the other groups suggesting more compliant personalities in the institutionalized group. Author/SW)

Investigates whether disputes arising between 21-month-old children, meeting for the first time in a laboratory playroom, showed one or more of the following social hallmarks: (1) a patterned interactive structure, (2) explicitly communicative content, including conventional gestures and intelligible speech, and (3) antecedent and consequent…

Answers five questions related to the advisability of mainstreaming handicapped preschoolers. It is concluded that a strong rationale exists for integrating handicapped preschool children into regular programs and that research findings indicate that integration is beneficial to both handicapped and nonhandicapped. (Author/RH)

Two classes of first graders--one of handicapped children, the other of normal children--developed their own ways of learning about each other. (Author)

Deals with the relative influence of four groups of significant others on adolescents' drinking. Adolescents' friends exert a stronger, more pervasive influence on their drinking than any other group of significant others examined, while adults exert a relatively strong influence on the quantity of alcohol adolescents consume. (Author)

The option of the child-free life should be offered to every young person contemplating marriage or approaching childbearing age. (Authors)