Socialization of affective and moral components of the personality is usually conceived of as completed by the end of adolescence. In contrast, this paper analyzes certain aspects of undergraduate college education which constitute a new level of socialization; although to a degree previously extant, it never before involved such a mass population…

Discusses two approaches in offering vocational guidance to West Indian children immigrants in Great Britain; one is a static approach which matches a child's abilities with available jobs, while the other is a dynamic approach involving assessment of the child's total personality, abilities, and achievements before help is given. (SB)

The focus of this paper is on consumer learning processes, processes by which adolescents acquire skills and attitudes relating to the consumption of goods and services. It examines intrafamily and mass media communication as they affect consumer learning processes, and describes some demographic predictors of consumer learning. (Author/VW)

Parents of entering freshmen were queried by questionnaire regarding areas in which they gave their children experience in self regulation prior to college and their expectations about controls the college would exercise. (Author)

This article describes that part of the research related to the formation of moral values in a multi-racial group of students. (Author)

To better define what out-of-school characteristics of students are the most important determinants of particular kinds of academic achievement, 301 Indonesian fourth grade students were studied. The findings have policy implications in developing countries where parents are now being encouraged to take an interest in their children's learning.…

Provides an overview of a longitudinal, prospective, multivariate adoption study of behavioral development and discusses the results of analyses of cognitive measures and environmental assessments as examples of the types of information that can emerge from a design of this sort. (Author/RH)

The linguistic home environments of 10 language-delayed children and 10 linguistically normal children were compared using audiorecordings of parent-child dyads. Significant differences were found between the linguistic interactions of parents with a language-disordered child and parents with a linguistically normal child in all areas studied.…

Characteristics of the aggressive, severely behavior disordered (BD) child are discussed, with a focus on classification and identification criteria. Additional factors directly related to the behavior of an aggressive, severely BD child are also considered: biological factors, familial factors, cognitive factors, frustration (specifically…

Examined family background variables in relation to women's (N=400) adherence to feminist ideology and commitment to a self-perception as a "feminist." Results showed the only factors differentiating women who uphold feminist ideology from those who do not is perception of mothers' ideology and nonreligious background. (WAS)

Differences in intelligence and achievement of 78 deaf adolescents with and without deaf family members were compared. The results indicated that the relationships of nonverbal intelligence, verbal achievement, and early sign language are more complex than was apparent in past studies. (Author/SW)

Examined the differences between the home environment and college environment and the personal and academic characteristics of persisting (N=201) and nonpersisting (N=165) students at a major midwestern university. Develops recommendations and guidelines for colleges and universities to help curtail the college dropout problem. (PAS)

Discusses current ideas about the symptoms and psychodynamics of depression in middle and late childhood (ages 6 to 8 and 9 to 12, respectively). Implications for intervention differ according to cognitive development. Environmental intervention and family involvement are necessary in middle childhood, and individual psychotherapy in late…