Focuses on career oriented girls who choose male dominated occupations. A deviance hypothesis" suggesting that these women are different from women who choose traditionally feminine occupations, in terms of dating, extra curricular activities, relationships with parents, and work values receives only limited support. An alternative hypothesis…

Investigated the effects of social learning and symbolic interaction on adolescent self-esteem. Adolescents (N=368) and their parents completed measures of self-esteem, parental behavior and parental power. Results suggested adolescent self-esteem is more a function of social interaction and the reflected appraisals of others than a modeling of…

A study supported three hypotheses, that students with dentist parents: (1) receive greater reinforcement of their education; (2) interact more with their parents on dentally related material; and (3) perceive greater well-being during their dental school years. A fourth hypothesis, that students with dentist parents earn better grades, was not…

Twenty-four mothers were trained to record emotional incidents involving their toddlers. Reports of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of (1) the types of discipline used and children's responses to that discipline and (2) the relationship between compliance/noncompliance and type of misdeed. Love withdrawal was shown to be a highly…

Data on the relation between marital turmoil (i.e., discord and divorce) and behavior problems in children are reviewed. Several parameters of this relation are outlined, including type of marital turmoil, form of the child's behavioral response, sex differences, age effects, parental buffering, and effects of parental psychopathology. (Author/MP)

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)

Examines possible relationships of attitudes of secondary students toward family planning education and selected variables of sex, age, religion, occupation of mother, and occupation of father. Findings indicate that students are supportive of family planning education although females generally favored such education more than males. (Author/CT)

Fifty college women were surveyed to determine to what extent maternal employment served as a role model. Results show that parent encouragement, daughter's sex role orientation, and the mother's attitudes and beliefs were the major factors in determining career choice and commitment. (Author/JLF)

The mother's impact on her teenage daughter's sexual behavior has been conceptualized in terms of direct and indirect sources of influence. In this study, findings indicate indirect forms of sexual socialization have a greater impact on teenage sexual experience than direct forms. (Author)

Suggests that the mass media serve as socializing agents by providing direct linkage to media and contents which are essential for the development of political values, and by contributing to the structuring of social contexts in which adolescents may exercise such value orientations and reinforce ties with primary socializing agents. (JMF)

In this review, little support is found for Piaget's claim that with increasing peer group interaction adult authority becomes less legitimate to the child. It is suggested that the adult exerts increasing influence with age on children's moral judgment and, therefore, emphasis on peer-centered moral education may be misdirected. (Author/SJL)

Suggests that (1) parents and peers influence adolescents through the expression of normative standards or the modeling of behaviors; (2) adolescents respond to such pressure directly or by internalizing norms or preferences for conduct; and (3) pressures, norms, and preferences have different effects on adolescent behavior, depending on the topic…

Using a toy preference technique, boys and girls between 42 and 64 months were tested for sex role stereotyping. Analysis indicated the developmental nature of such stereotyping in both sexes and the finding that older siblings are much more important in the development of such stereotyping than are sexist parents. (Author/GC)

Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between adolescent educational expectations and perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals was 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between…

Suggests some ways in which parents can use their power to affect school policy. (MP)