Given the theoretical complexity of the processes underlying achievement, it is not surprising to find limited investigation of the relationships between maternal employment and adolescent academic performance. The High School and Beyond 1980 sophomores data was used to assess the impact of maternal employment on seven latent variables: number of…

This study was conducted to examine the influence of medical, psychological, and familial factors on the coping of pediatric cancer patients. Participants were 36 pediatric cancer patients and their families under active treatment at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, a comprehensive cancer research and treatment center in Buffalo, New York. The…

The relationship of parent personality to child psychopathology has been investigated in numerous studies over the past three decades, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). To investigate response patterns of both parents and offspring, the MMPI responses of 197 families with adolescents entering inpatient or outpatient…

Discusses the first born child in terms of his/her significance in the family cycle, with emphasis on the status of parenthood a couple achieves by the child's birth. (DP)

Guidelines for effective parent-child relationships are offered as one approach to insure a positive future for our nation's children and youth, and revive the potency of parents as sources of positive influence. (Author)

The author briefly surveys early psychomotor development in children, the process of separation-individualization during the first three years of life, and the effect that early experience may have on subsequent actual physical movement. The studies of Jean Piaget and Margaret Mahler provide a framework for examining the notions of space…

This study deals with the relative influence of parents and peers during adolescence. The assumption that these are the central references in the life space of the adolescent is widely documented in the available research. The basic research question in this study is: Who has the most influence on youth and under what conditions is this influence…

This article examines the role parents play in the implementation of change at the school or district level. It also offers guidelines for the school administrator who wishes to foster parents' constructive rather than destructive participation. (RC)

This paper suggests that the mother's occupation as well as the father's occupation affect a daughter's occupational destination. (Author/EB)

University of Texas at Austin assessed the career interest patterns of 3,921 incoming students during the 1977 summer orientation program. Results indicated that careers in the business area were most frequently listed as tentative career choices. Parents were cited most frequently as the major influence on students' career decisions. (Author)

A parent-monitored program of oral hygiene, stressing regular brushing and flossing, resulted in statistically significant improvement in palque and gingivitis ratings. (MJB)

This study investigated the effects of parental models plus nondifferential praise, and expansions plus nondifferential praise on 2-year-old children's spontaneous use of color and size adjective-noun combinations. (Author/SB)

The relationship between offspring adjustment and parental behavior was examined in male and female college students. Data indicate that acceptance vs. rejection and psychological autonomy vs. control are important dimensions of parental behavior. (GO)

In a twin study using direct behavioral observation of parent-child interaction, as well as ratings and experimental measures, the question of parents' differential treatment of monozygotic and dizygotic twins was investigated. (Author/SB)

Assessed children of patients with anxiety disorders using self-report inventories and a semistructured interview schedule. They were more anxious and fearful, reported more school difficulties and worries about family members and themselves, had more somatic complaints, spent more time engaged in solitary activities than children in two normal…