To assess the impact of parents on children's achievement, self-concept, and related beliefs, extensive questionnaires measuring attitudes and beliefs regarding mathematics achievement were administered to children in grades 5 through 11 and their parents. The potential influence of parents both as role models and as expectancy socializers was…

Investigated latency-age children (N=11) who attempted or threatened suicide. Discovered common characteristics including: (1) suicidal parents; (2) a major family crisis; (3) excessive parental demands; (4) lack of satisfying relationships; (5) paradoxical death attitudes; and (6) positive strivings to stay alive. Developed a model for predicting…

Hypothesizes that consistent parent encouragement through secondary school years is an important cause of students aspiring towards higher education and entering four-year colleges. Findings supported the hypothesis. (AM)

Examined depressed and nondepressed students' perceptions of their parents' standards and evaluations. Data supported the hypotheses that depressogenic parents negatively evaluate their offspring and depressive offspring show lowered self-evaluations. Discusses results in terms of interpersonal attraction theory and mutual influencability in…

Work values of groups of Maryland high school seniors were measured using the Maryland work Value Inventory, to find if students from different backgrounds would have different work values. It was found that categorizing students on the basis of how they classified their parents' occupations did produce different work value profiles. (MF)

In her introduction to this theme issue on women and leadership, the author reviews evidence on the background characteristics and advancement patterns of women leaders. Childhood sports participation, parental support, role models, mentors, education, and the development of security and self-confidence are considered as requisites to leadership…

A study of high school students produced information on their age at learning about sex-related topics, and the source and accuracy of their knowledge. Peers were cited most often as the source of information. Many sexual concepts were acquired by the age of eleven, and the overall accuracy was 78.7 percent. (FG)

Defines emotional abuse of children and offers a plan to deal with the problem. (JOW)

A study identified the ways parents assisted with supervised occupational experiences of students. The results revealed significant differences in the degree of assistance provided among parents of students holding different Future Farmers of America degrees. (LRA)

Examines four traditional explanatory models for the influence of parents on children's self-esteem. These models are directiveness, modeling, reward and punishment, and positive family interaction. (Author/DB)

Notes the resurgence of fathering over the last decade and reviews existing literature on the direct and indirect impact of fathers on children's cognitive and psychosocial development during four growth stages: infancy, preschool, middle childhood, and adolescence. (SJL)

The authors review studies of the self concept and locus of control of learning disabled children, emphasizing that their negative academic self concepts are often reinforced by low expectations of mothers and teachers. Reprinted from the "Journal of Clinical Child Psychology," 1979, v8 pp223-26. (Editor/SJL)

Describes the parents' organization at the University of Minnesota Technical College and their parents' day activities. The parents' organization functions through a forty-member council to provide parents with school information, inform parents of policies, and to make recommendations to further improve educational services. (LRA)

In this study 610 kibbutz and city boys and girls from grades 3 to 6 were compared on the following variables: stages of moral judgment, external reactions to transgression (fear and punitiveness), and internal reactions to transgression (guilt and confession). (Author/MP)

Standardized achievement test scores, behavioral and social adjustment ratings, and school cumulative record data of firstborn children of Black mothers, aged 15 and under, paralleled closely that of peers born to older Black mothers (aged 20 to 24). (Author/CP)