Success for Mexican American children in American classrooms will be increased if school administrators and teachers concentrate some effort on the entire family. Suggests parent involvement in adult education curriculum planning and advisory committees, and highlighting Mexican culture in class. (CT)

Criticizes accepted premises regarding family influence on the child: (1) particular external conditions are inevitably associated with fixed consequences for all children; (2) some psychological structures created by early experience are stable over time; and (3) the mother-infant bond is the primary determinant of the child's future…

Social science literature has provided relatively little information about paternal influences on child development. As more men play an active role in child rearing, we can hope for a parallel change in methodology and concepts which would enable us to better understand the father's roles in his child's development. (Author/GC)

Middle class Japanese children whose willingness to cheat in a game had been observed at age four were administered a version of a Machiavellianism scale seven years later. Developmental changes in Machiavellianism, sex differences, and belief behavior congruency were considered in the Japanese cultural context. (Author/GC)

Academic achievement in matched groups of eight (each) high school level hearing impaired students of hearing impaired parents and of hearing parents were compared. (Author)

A preliminary report on a study of patterns of child care by drugs addicted mothers stresses indicators of risk to the infants revealed in the mothers' life-styles. (CM)

Investigates developmental changes in conformity to parents and peers and relations between parent and peer conformity. Children in grades 3, 6, 9, and 11 or 12 responded to hypothetical situations. (Author/SS)

Conducted meta-analysis of 66 studies on parental antecedents of attachment security. Found that maternal sensitivity was an important but not exclusive condition of attachment security in normal settings. Mutuality, Synchrony, Stimulation, Positive Attitude, and Emotional Support were associated with security. Advocated a contextual level to…

Examined the association of the mother-grandmother relationship with the parenting of preschoolers in a sample of 96 African-American multigenerational families. Found that the observed quality of the mother-grandmother relationship, as assessed by the Scale of Intergenerational Relationship Quality, was systematically related to parenting of the…

Reports a large-scale survey (N=1985) of 9- to 12-year-olds' representations of parents' and friends' views about the nature of smoking. Results indicate that young smokers have access to sets of beliefs about others' smoking views that may differ from those available to nonsmokers. Other results are reported. (RJM)

Examines how career development and psychological separation from parents relates to identity development. Career development variables predicted degree of identity exploration and identity commitment for both men and women. Women scored lower on functional and emotional independence, suggesting that they viewed themselves as being less…

Examines the influence of parental education and behaviors on 9th graders' (N=236) career exploration. Results indicate that parental authoritativeness, openness to adolescents' issues, and concern with promoting career exploration significantly related to the career exploration by their children, independent of parental educational background and…

Examines the influence of parent-child collaboration on children's social competence with peers and the role of parents' and child's gender. Provides evidence that when parents collaborate with children, children's social competence with peers increases and that children's social competence is influenced more by the parent of the same sex than by…

Analyzes parental variables investigated in the Longitudinal Study of American Youth. Analysis revealed that not all parental variables investigated had significant relations to students' mathematics achievement at the seventh-grade level. Findings indicate that parent education and encouragement are strongly related to improved student…