When mothers of 12 infants 10 weeks of age displayed noncontingent, practiced facial and vocal expressions of joy, anger, and sadness, infants responded differently to each expression. Infants' matching responses to maternal affects were only part of complex but predictable behavioral patterns that indicate meaningful affect states and possibly…

Academically competent third-graders and their parents were studied to (1) determine whether the illusion of incompetence documented in fifth graders appears in younger children; and (2) examine the influence that parents exert on their children's development of self-perceptions of academic competence. (PCB)

Examines the relations of Type A scores of parents to Type A scores of their children. Parent-child correlations were found for father-son pairs. (PCB)

Assessed how reports of parental discipline and control were related to adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior. Adolescents' perceptions of parental strictness and rules show a curvilinear relationship to their sexual attitudes and behavior; sexual permissiveness and intercourse experience was highest among adolescents who viewed their parents…

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)

Examines children's conceptions of parental authority. A total of 120 children were interviewed and asked to evaluate social events (stealing, family chores, friendship choice) pertaining to restraint of behavior and maintenance of parental rule systems. Results suggest that children's notions of authority are heterogeneous with respect to the…

Analyzes 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Survey data to show that the effects of father's schooling and sibship size on sons' schooling are mainly additive and invariant over cohorts. Apparent interactions between father's schooling and sibship size result primarily from differences in mean educational attainment among sibship size…

Personal interviews and agency records were used to examine month-by-month vocational histories of 53 sheltered workshop employees placed in competitive jobs. Most participants who were still employed after four to five years had parental support, while those who returned to the workshop or were unemployed did not. (Author/CL)

Contrasts effects of three modes of mother/child interaction on children's subsequent compliance with maternal directives. Subjects were 39 children from lower-middle-class families, ranging in age from approximately three to four-and-a-half. Responsive play and noninteractive conditions produced higher levels of compliance than the untrained free…

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)

Surveyed 434 college students to examine the interference of relatives and friends with students' intimate relationships. Results indicated that network interference varies in a curvilinear pattern as the relationship progresses, particularly among parents and friends. (JAC)

An exploratory study was made of the emotional and social functioning of young children having one manic-depressive parent. Semi-naturalistic observations and experimental manipulations of the affective environment were used to assess two-year-olds' regulation of emotion, as well as their aggression, altruism, and affiliative interactions.…

Discusses the distinction between species-typical (elicitation) and operant reinforcement interpretations of infant/adult social interaction; considers procedural and analytic components of Poulson's 1983 paper (v36 p471-89); and clarifies differences in Poulson's interpretation and the author's interpretation of the vocal conditioning studies of…

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)

This study used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to assess the extent to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next, focusing on whether the effect of parental income on sons' family income and wages changed for cohorts between 1949 and 1965. The PSID is a longitudinal data set initiated with a core…