Reports a survey on South Australian parents' perceptions of their involvement in preschool education. (MP)

This study examined the relative impact of parent and peer reference groups on frequency of marijuana use in a nonrandom sample of university students. Ordinal type scales and tau-b provide a statistically strong degree of association between the type of reference group orientation and marijuana use. (Author/SJL)

An examination of relevant literature reveals that females are sex-role stereotyped as being more expressive than males. It was hypothesized that although females would be more expressive than males, this difference could be explained by two variables--perceived parental expressiveness and interpersonal orientation. (Author)

Examined the association of parental support and parental pressure with enjoyment, performance, self-esteem, and other characteristics of young tournament tennis players. Results indicate that parental support was significantly associated with enjoyment and with the importance players ascribed to their tennis game. Parental pressure failed to…

Examines the intergenerational transmission of gender role ideology and work role identity. Results, based on interviews of 246 mother-daughter pairs, show a positive relationship between mothers' gender role ideology in the 1950s and their daughters' gender role ideology as adults in 1988 -- social change increased mother-daughter congruence in…

Examined the link between the parent-adolescent relationship and the adolescent's relationship with peers. Administered a battery of questionnaires to 508 families to assess the quality of the parent-child relationship. Results suggest that a positive self-concept and warm supportive parenting each contribute unique variance to satisfactory peer…

Case studies of six black parents in Britain found that they have understanding of the educational process, the system, and parental rights, a form of cultural capital necessary for effective school relationships. However, dissonance between parents and the schools suggests underlying issues of race, such as schools' low expectations of black…

Senior nursing students (n=350) completed the Caring Ability Inventory, Parental Bonding instrument, and a school climate inventory. Those with highest caring ability scored at both highest and lowest levels of maternal care. Caring school climate was the strongest predictor of caring ability, but only 52% rated their schools high in caring. (SK)

Advances debate on the causal mechanism involved in the link between marital conflict and children's development by addressing three issues: (1) identifying basic processes in emotion; (2) operationalizing theories in order to differentiate between their predictions; and (3) designing research to identify causal mechanisms. Asserts that Davies and…

Explores how aspects of a father's religiousness are related to the type and quality of involvement with his children. Results indicate that religious fathers are more involved fathers and that they report higher quality relationships. Greater involvement of religious fathers is explained only in part by demographic factors and the mediating…

Holding family-of-origin occupational characteristics constant, both White and African American men from female-headed one-parent families did as well in terms of socioeconomic attainment and occupational status as did men from families with two biological parents. In contrast, father-headed one-parent families and stepfamilies negatively affected…

Examined relation of emotional regulation strategies to angry affect during a frustration task in a sample of low-income boys. Found that shifting attention away from sources of frustration and seeking information about situation constraints were associated with decreased anger, and secure attachment and positive maternal control correlated with…

Studies of (TD) and (ING) in King of Prussia (Pennsylvania) families show that children have matched their parents' patterns of variation by age seven, before many categorical phonological and grammatical rules can be established. Some dialect-specific and socially marked constraints are acquired before constraints with general articulatory…