Attempted to determine authoritarian paternal attitude inter-generational transmission in fathers and sons (N=75). Results suggested that authoritarian paternal attitudes could be indicated in terms of five factors: Dominant, Rigidity, Conformity, Intolerant, and Uncreative; and that the sons expressed strongly the authoritarian attitudes of their…

Examines indirect parental influence on mate choice of Hawaiian brides (N=3,814) and grooms (N=3,357), all of whom married into the native group of their parents. Results indicated that mate choice is more influenced by the opposite-sex parent and in general more influenced by mothers than by fathers. (LLL)

This paper explores levels of perceived parental influence on mathematics learning among over 700 students in China and Australia. Students in China had stronger perceived parental influences than students in Australia, and while students in China, Chinese speaking students in Australia, and other language speaking students in Australia…

This report examines associations between three dimensions of family religious involvement (number of days per week the family does something religious, parental worship service attendance, and parental prayer) and the quality of family relationships for early adolescents. Out of the 27 family relationship variables examined, all significantly…

Analyzed parataxic distortion (low self esteem and attribution of low self-acceptance to the average person), by looking for key qualities of parenting associated with this type of distorted perception. (DP)

Measures for self-esteem and parental esteem for 159 high school students were investigated to assess relationships to age and three cultural classifications: advantaged whites, disadvantaged whites, and disadvantaged blacks. (Author)

A total of 24 middle-class mothers and their two-and-a-half-year old children were observed on two occasions. Mothers were found to employ two types of control techniques: immediate contingent response to the child's undesired behavior and intentional direction of the child's attention without prior elicitation by the child. (Author/RH)

Examines four models of explanation for truancy and suggests that the three that rely upon individual or social pathologies are too simplistic. States that a new approach to truancy that gives attention to the schools' contribution and that recognizes the opinions of parents and truants is required. (NRJ)

The article discusses several criticisms of the use of drugs in the treatment of hyperactivity, and suggests some nondrug procedures for parents and teachers to use in the home and classroom to minimize and control a child's hyperactive behavior. (DLS)

Urges parents to share their own past school experiences with their children. (Author/LD)

Analysis of data from the National Education Longitudinal Study 1988 (11,273 parents/students) did not support the assumption that parental involvement in career development is higher in families with fewer children, nor did socioeconomic status have practical significance. Female teens reported higher parental involvement than did males. (SK)

Investigated predictors of African American adolescent sexual activity, testing an ecological model of risk factors influencing sexual activity. Data collected over three years indicated that risk factors at the personal, familial, and extrafamilial levels of adolescents' social ecology related to being a virgin or not. Males and older adolescents…

Discusses recent theory and research on parental activities that influence children's academic self-regulatory development, describing a social-cognitive perspective on academic self- regulation which assumes parents function as implicit and explicit social models for their children and socially support their emulation and adaptive use of…

A questionnaire was administered to 42 Hong Kong Chinese deaf couples, their 70 hearing children, 41 hearing couples, and their 82 hearing children. No differences were found in the self-concepts of children of deaf parents compared to children of hearing parents, but deaf parents reported lower self-concepts than hearing parents. (Author/JDD)