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Download full textMulticultural Drug Abuse Prevention Resource Center, Arlington, VA. – 1978
In this pamphlet, advice is provided for Pacific Asian American parents about how they can work to help their children to develop positive self-images and to deal with racism and other social problems. The importance of parent-child communication, strong ethnic identity, education, and a sense of self-worth as methods of preventing drug abuse and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Child Rearing, Drug Abuse, Mental Health
Anapol, Malthon M., Ed. – The Encoder, 1979
The first article in this journal issue offers a diffuse definition of instructional communication, the theme of the issue, and reviews literature that points out the ill-defined parameters of communication and the classroom. The following articles discuss the development of a rhetorical perspective on teaching, the parental role in facilitating…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise (Physiology), Parent Influence
Coonrod, Debbie – 1979
A variety of research studies have indicated that fathers' availability and their leadership are vital to the healthy functioning of each individual in the family. One study showed that in 48 societies fathers assume an instrumental role in family life, while in only eight societies is fathering predominately an expressive function. Occasionally,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family (Sociological Unit), Fatherless Family, Fathers
Hicks, Dale A.; Mathis, Andrew G. – 1980
Personality theorists have suggested the critical importance of parenting characteristics on the development of a child's personality. Missildine's (1963) classification of parenting characteristics and their effects on the adult personality were investigated using an experimental measure, the Inner Child Inventory (ICI), to assess perceived…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Parent Child Relationship
FOX, ROBERT S.; AND OTHERS – 1964
AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE LEARNING SITUATIONS IN A VARIETY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS WAS UNDERTAKEN. THE PROJECT MADE A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PATTERNS OF COOPERATION OR ALIENATION AMONG PARENTS, TEACHERS, PEERS, AND INDIVIDUAL PUPILS. THE PATTERNS CREATE LEARNING CULTURES OF DIFFERENT PRODUCTIVITY IN VARIOUS CLASSROOMS. THE DATA…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Learning Activities, Parent Influence
Homberg, Erentraud, Ed. – 1978
This brochure presents the summaries of two major studies carried out in three European countries concerning the role of television in the life of preschool children. The first study involved participant observation and interviews of 90 families from England and 50 families from Ireland over a 6-month period. The children studied were between the…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Educational Television, Family Characteristics, Family Influence
Prasad, V. Kanti; And Others – 1977
This study investigated, in a laboratory experimental framework, the relative influences of television commercials and parental counter-commercial advocacy on children's consumption choice behavior. Sixty-four 8- to 10-year-old boys were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1) no counter commercial advocacy (control group), (2)…
Descriptors: Children, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Kirby, Milton J. – 1969
First grade students from families with common ethnic, social, and economic characteristics were studied to determine the effects of parent participation in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program on the attendance and achievement of the children. The experimental group was composed of 160 children from low income, Spanish-speaking families in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Attendance
Fein, Greta G. – 1974
This study investigated the pretend play behavior of 16 boys and girls aged 12 and 18 months. Each child was presented a standard set of stimulus materials during two home visits. For each of three 10-minute episodes, the child's pretend activities were recorded by means of a coded observation schedule. During episode 1 the child played alone,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Females, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
Ringler, Norma; Jarvella, Robert – 1974
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between maternal input to early language learners and language acquisition and to answer the following questions: (1) Does nursery language used with the child change after he begins to talk? (2) Is there reason to believe that the child's speech is influenced by or influences the mother's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Larson, Lyle E. – 1970
This paper, the final one in a series of three, presents the results of a test on the relative predictive efficiency of four alternative hypotheses in explaining the "salience hierarchy" (the relative influence of parents and peers) among youth. The four hypotheses include: (1) grade level approach; (2) goals hypothesis; (3) situational approach;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Family Influence, Interpersonal Relationship
Hess, Robert D.; And Others – 1969
This document contains the three papers that comprised the Head Start Research Seminar No. 5 on Intervention in Family Life. The main thrust of this seminar is the investigation of family and parent characteristics that influence the academic performance of young children. Robert Hess, in the opening paper, summarizes the information available on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Family Life
Lobitz, W. Charles; Johnson, Stephen M. – 1974
Examined was the ability of parents of 12 deviant and 12 nondeviant boys, age 4-8 years, to bias home observation data by influencing their child's behavior in socially desirable and undesirable directions. The parents were given the response set to present their child as "good", "bad", and usual (normal) during six 45-minute observations of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Miller, Sheila J. – 1973
This speech relates the results of a study designed to discover what combination of loving-or-rejecting and casual-or-demanding mothers and fathers is likely to produce the highest achievement orientations among girls and what combination of parent-child relations is least productive of achievement orientations. The data for this study came from…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Need, Family Influence, Females
Riffer, Roger L. – 1972
Four general hypotheses concerning the sources of university students' political attitudes are presented and evaluated in this paper. A cross-sectional survey of American male Harvard University graduate students was conducted with a questionnaire dealing with attitudes toward United States involvement in Vietnam. Responses were analyzed by…
Descriptors: Activism, Beliefs, Educational Research, Higher Education
