The problem of decreasing enrollment among Senior 4-H Youth in Bradley County, Tennessee was studied. Data were collected from 208 ninth and tenth grade home economics classes. The data were classified into two groups: (1) girls who were 4-H club members at the time of the interview, and (2) girls who had been but were not in 4-H in 1970. The…

Responses of 104 female adolescents to the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) 7GF card and to the Scenotest (SCT) were analyzed in order to determine the influence of the mother's place of work (at home or away) and her job satisfaction on the daughter's sex-role identification. (Author/JMB)

Male engineering students (N=340) revealed chosen major job function and completed the Family Relations Inventory (FRI). Engineering students in general are more likely to describe their dominant parent as Avoiding than as either Accepting or Concentrating. (Author)

Short interviews were conducted with 48 first grade and 37 third grade children. All third grade children vs. 54 per cent of those in first grade had some concept of a drug. Parents were most frequently mentioned as the source of drug knowledge with television next. (Author)

Examines intergenerational similarity in political and religious orientations among 653 father-mother-youth triads. Results indicate substantial parental prediction of children's responses. Mothers show higher levels of prediction emphasis on most variables. Results suggest socialization theory should give greater emphasis to parental…

Videotaped conversations of Spanish-speaking children aged two or four years, first with their mothers and then with each other, were compared. Results support Vygotsky's hypothesis that children's skills in following regulations by others and in regulating others emerge in the social context of conversations. (PCB)

An analysis using data drawn from Nancy Bayley's Berkeley Growth Study is performed for didactic purposes to illustrate the use of structural equation modeling on a child development data set. Alternatives to standard latent factor approaches are demonstrated for use in research situations in which the subject-to-variable ratio is less than…

Sources from which adolescents receive general nutrition information and from which they are most likely to seek specific information were examined. Data were collected from 163 14- to 18-year-old subjects; over 90 percent reported having learned about nutrition in a school course. Other frequently cited sources were television, parents, labels on…

Infants expressed more joy and looked longer at their mothers during a joy condition, and they showed more sadness, anger, and gaze aversion during a sadness condition. They engaged in more play behavior in the joy condition than in the sadness condition. Several significant relations between infants' gaze behavior, emotion expressions, and play…

Presents findings on sex-role stereotyping in five-year-olds. White children gave more stereotyped responses than did black children, and their stereotyping increased as parent educational level increased. The latter trend was not evidenced in black children, and no significant differences in stereotyping were noted between the sexes. (KH)

Examines reasons that adolescents use alcohol and drugs, including role confusion, developmental factors, parental influence, and peer pressure. Reports that adolescents also abuse substances to feel excitement, cope with personality conflicts, and express their individuality through rebellion. (ABB)

Using two-parent families with early adolescent daughters, a study addressed three questions: (1) Is adolescent depressive mood affected by parent mood? (2) Do maternal and paternal mood states impact similarly or differently on adolecent mood? and (3) Can one parent serve as a buffer for the second parent's mood state? (HOD)

Describes a study which compared the effects of three types of adult feedback (acceptance, correction with joint labelling, and correction with explanation) on young children's inappropriate word usage. Findings showed that correction with explanation was more effective than correction with joint labelling, which was more effective than simple…

Infants whose mothers were supportive of their autonomy displayed greater task-oriented persistence and competence during play than did infants of more controlling mothers; securely attached and avoidant infants tended to exhibit greater persistence at tasks than anxious-ambivalent babies, and ambivalent babies were the most negative in affect.…