The hypothesis that self-esteem is positively correlated with parental identification was supported for female college students by two out of three self-esteem measures. For male subjects one social self-esteem measure correlated negatively with maternal identification and a self-concept measure correlated positively. No relationship between…

Study explored the influence of the early home environment on the young adult's attitudes; the Anti-Establishment'' group tended to have less stable family relationships. (SP)

Study examined the hypotheses that adults do not speak to children as they speak to other adults and that the speech addressed to a child becomes more adult-like as the child increases in linguistic competence. (Author/CB)

Paternal nurturance and some of its components were correlated significantly and positively with the children's IQ scores in the retesting, suggesting that these paternal behaviors may foster cognitive development. Indications were also found that other paternal behaviors may affect the intellectual growth of the child. (Author)

Reports the results of a research project which focused on the person and experience factors influencing curriculum choices. (SB)

Findings indicate that children who are learning language have available a sample of speech which is simpler, more redundant, and less confusing than normal adult speech. (Author)

Concerned with the intellectual development of women and suggests that its principal determinants are biologically rooted potentials, parent-child relationships and both parent and subtle cultural reinforcement. (Editors)

A new approach, the social control of learning disabilities, argues that the child's disability affects mainly his parents and then teachers and professionals in such a way that their activities to help him are thwarted by the same complex of symptoms as those of the child's disability. (Author)

A child learns very early in his life that there is a great disparity between truth and social propriety. He quickly accomodates himself to this situation in order to avoid unpleasant experiences. (CK)

School disordered children, and institutionalized children to a greater degree, under perceived threat to the self arising from concepts related to family and school, attach greater meaning to those aspects ofenvironment than the school adjusted children. Successful adjustment to school, at least in terms of children's perceptions, tends to be…

Study explores how patterns of school friends' and parents' influence converge within the school and the role of the school in shaping adolescents' plans. One conclusion is that school program is more influential in the United States. (Author/DB)