This paper, the final one in a series of three, presents the results of a test on the relative predictive efficiency of four alternative hypotheses in explaining the "salience hierarchy" (the relative influence of parents and peers) among youth. The four hypotheses include: (1) grade level approach; (2) goals hypothesis; (3) situational approach;…

This document contains the three papers that comprised the Head Start Research Seminar No. 5 on Intervention in Family Life. The main thrust of this seminar is the investigation of family and parent characteristics that influence the academic performance of young children. Robert Hess, in the opening paper, summarizes the information available on…

Examined was the ability of parents of 12 deviant and 12 nondeviant boys, age 4-8 years, to bias home observation data by influencing their child's behavior in socially desirable and undesirable directions. The parents were given the response set to present their child as "good", "bad", and usual (normal) during six 45-minute observations of…

This speech relates the results of a study designed to discover what combination of loving-or-rejecting and casual-or-demanding mothers and fathers is likely to produce the highest achievement orientations among girls and what combination of parent-child relations is least productive of achievement orientations. The data for this study came from…

Four general hypotheses concerning the sources of university students' political attitudes are presented and evaluated in this paper. A cross-sectional survey of American male Harvard University graduate students was conducted with a questionnaire dealing with attitudes toward United States involvement in Vietnam. Responses were analyzed by…

A sample of college freshmen (N=127,125) was grouped by father's occupation. Fathers' occupations were then compared in terms of the probability of the sons and daughters having attained various types of achievements--scientific, artistic, oral-leadership, musical, and literary--in high school. The results indicated that sons and daughters excel…

Recent studies of parent-child programs conducted either at school or at home are reported in this bibliography. Included are entries from "Research in Education" (RIE), July 1971 to August 1972 and citations of journal articles appearing in "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE) from July 1971 to August 1972. Entries were selected if…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report whose aim was to investigate the relationship between intellectual level, social background, and the personal circumstances of the pupil within the school system at the age of 14. Their parents answered a questionnaire, and this, coupled with IQ tests given to…

Notes that the art of human relations cannot be acquired unless children are allowed the opportunity to humanly relate, and that this cannot be accomplished when the school day is given over to assignments. Children should not be conscious of adult expectancy--a source of self-consciousness and waste. (Author/AM)

This study showed an association between early independence training and internal locus of control in a cross-sectional, relatively diffuse, low- to middle-class subject population. (JMB)

Investigates the short-term consequences of discrepant information between the commercial message and the parent's evaluation of the product advertised and concludes that all forms of counter-influence fail when a product is made to appear highly attractive. (MH)

Questionnaires completed by 200 parents of primary grade hearing impaired children indicated that approximately 50 percent had experienced difficulty and prolonged delay in referral for diagnosis. (Author/CL)

Fourteen fathers were observed with their children in unstructured and semistructured situations at home. Mothers and children were also observed, with and without fathers. Observations were made when the children were 15, 20, and 30 months old and assessments of the children's intellectual competence were also made at these ages. (Author/JMB)

Stratified random sample of 354 single undergraduates was used to investigate willingness of persons of marriageable age to participate in 12 alternative marital and family forms. Nontraditional sex role ideology, perceived parental rejection and infrequent religious observance emerged as frequent correlates of willingness to participate in the 12…

Discusses ways to deal with children's desires for consumer goods advertised on television and pushed by peer groups. Considers needs, wants, and wishes of children, and how each can influence purchase decisions. (SB)