This article discusses the application of self-efficacy beliefs on career development. This theory was introduced by Hackett and Betz (1981) and has received many extensive studies. There are many factors that may influence career self-efficacy such as gender, culture, parental, and family backgrounds. The methods of increasing career…

There is little empirical evidence that home-school education is as academically effective as traditional education, or that average and above-average academic achievement is sustained through high school. A sample of 110 home-schooled students (59 males, 51 females, ages 5 years 3 months to 19 years 6 months) were administered the…

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy reviewed recent research about parental influences on children's sexual behavior and talked to experts, teens, and parents. From these sources, the Campaign derived 10 tips for parents and other adults to help reduce the risks of teen pregnancy. The 10 tips discussed in this pamphlet are: (1) be…

This paper describes how parents affect a child's vocational choice and what parents can do to help children improve their vocational prospects, the opportunities and responsibilities of parents in the socialization processes which lead to the children's vocational choices, and what parent educators can do to help parents be more effective with…

The basic objective of the current study was to investigate systematically the moral reasoning of adolescents and their mothers in delinquent and nondelinquent families using Kohlberg's structured moral dilemmas. (Author/RK)

These results lend additional support to the theorized importance of parental identification in the early development of behavior disorders. (Author)

A social worker at the Seizure Unit, Children's Hospital, Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, explains how the unit helps parents understand epilepsy. (DS)

The single best predictor of maternal teaching, or child response, was ethnicity. Children in this study experienced different learning environments which may result in different skills and expectations brought by them into the classroom. (Authors)

Investigation concentrated on verbal and nonverbal variables of child-mother interactions as it pertains to the child's language development. (MB)

One major aspect of moral judgment selected for this study is the child's flexibility toward rules. (MB)

Author describes her experience teaching music appreciation via radio to mothers of preschool children. (Author/JB)

If we do not succeed in achieving a campus more voluntary than most of ours now are, if we do not restore a widespread faith in the openness of society, then our present troubles will seem as nothing compared to what lies ahead." (Author)