This study attempted to determine the influences on voting behavior of 18 or 19 year old college students voting for the first time and of older college students who had been eligible to vote in a previous election. Parental voting behavior was not related to the voting of the students. (JB)

Maternal estimations and aspirations are better predictors of children's attitudes than is family socioeconomic status. Moreover, a significant relationship suggests that supportive behavior on the part of mothers is encouraging to children. (Author)

The content of the situation is more important in the choice of courses of action than the pressures of either parents or peers, and parent peer orientations have a systematic, but minimal influence, on choice. (Author)

Tests the prevalent hypotheses that the matriarchal character of black families is associated principally with father absence from the home and that a matriarchal family structure has detrimental educational consequences for black males. Concludes that the lower educational attainment of blacks must be sought in other factors which make it…

Focuses on career oriented girls who choose male dominated occupations. A deviance hypothesis" suggesting that these women are different from women who choose traditionally feminine occupations, in terms of dating, extra curricular activities, relationships with parents, and work values receives only limited support. An alternative hypothesis…

Investigated the effects of social learning and symbolic interaction on adolescent self-esteem. Adolescents (N=368) and their parents completed measures of self-esteem, parental behavior and parental power. Results suggested adolescent self-esteem is more a function of social interaction and the reflected appraisals of others than a modeling of…

A study supported three hypotheses, that students with dentist parents: (1) receive greater reinforcement of their education; (2) interact more with their parents on dentally related material; and (3) perceive greater well-being during their dental school years. A fourth hypothesis, that students with dentist parents earn better grades, was not…

Twenty-four mothers were trained to record emotional incidents involving their toddlers. Reports of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of (1) the types of discipline used and children's responses to that discipline and (2) the relationship between compliance/noncompliance and type of misdeed. Love withdrawal was shown to be a highly…

Data on the relation between marital turmoil (i.e., discord and divorce) and behavior problems in children are reviewed. Several parameters of this relation are outlined, including type of marital turmoil, form of the child's behavioral response, sex differences, age effects, parental buffering, and effects of parental psychopathology. (Author/MP)

Tested relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence using data from sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade students and their parents. Findings indicated concordance is strongly related to the accuracy of offspring perceptions of parents' goals. (Author)