A literature review on families of gifted and talented individuals sought to determine the importance of several broad areas on talent development (structural or demographic characteristics, family climate or environment, values espoused and/or enacted by parents). Family climate variables differed between individuals exhibiting creative versus…

Factor analysis of variables relating to adolescents' perception of their home environment suggested five factors: extent of punishment, amount of chores at home, perceived parental control, absense of parents, and parents' attitude toward authority figures. Controlling for sex and age, these fators accounted for sizable portions of variance in…

Parental responses (N=125) to scaled items in home interviews were factor analyzed and family environment dimensions were employed as predictor variables. Parents of proficient readers were characterized as adapted to their children's deafness, involved in the deaf community, and permissive rather than overprotective. High achievers had parents…

Examined household crowding and loneliness and their effect on suicide ideation among a general sample of the population (N=247) in an urban area. Data indicated that the variables of household crowding and loneliness were significantly associated with the extent of suicide ideation. (LLL)

Presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship of family and aesthetics. Reviews the aesthetics of family policymaking and presents aesthetic sensibilities in enhancing family environment. Suggests the aesthetic in the existence and form of the family as a new way of viewing family relations. (JAC)

Mothers (N=67) of moderately mentally retarded children perceived their family climate as not encouraging such intense relationships in expressiveness or as much personal growth in independence and recreation orientation as six mothers of nondisabled children. (Author/CL)

The emotional development of the exceptional child is discussed in terms of the child experiencing fun in his individual childhood play and in family activities. (CB)

Found both positive (intellectual and cultural) and negative (greater conflict) impacts on the family environment as a result of mature married women returning to college. (Author/GC)

A 41-item sociopolitical questionnaire was administered to 209 upper-middle-class, primarily white, high school students. The 37 students scoring highest and 35 students scoring lowest in liberalism responded to interviews, tests, and Q sorts. Results indicate that personality structure is related to adolescents' political orientations and that…

Investigates spatial orientation of infants, comparing behavior in the laboratory to behavior in the infant's home. Also investigates whether the infant relies on his body as a spatial reference system. (Author/SS)

Examined young adults' experiences living at home for extended periods. Interview data indicated that the concept of home was a core organizing symbol in the discourse about coresidence with parents, linking social, emotional, and physical dimensions of the domestic environment with the young person's developing sense of self. The meaning of home…

A questionnaire was administered to 42 Hong Kong Chinese deaf couples, their 70 hearing children, 41 hearing couples, and their 82 hearing children. No differences were found in the self-concepts of children of deaf parents compared to children of hearing parents, but deaf parents reported lower self-concepts than hearing parents. (Author/JDD)

The home environment and behavior of 97 families with severely mentally retarded children was examined in order to determine the presence of family types. Five unique family clusters were identified: cohesive, control-oriented, responsive-to-child, moral-religious-oriented, and achievement-oriented. (Author/DB)

Examined 105 abused and nonabused women for patterns of adult psychopathology associated with childhood sexual abuse and to test extent to which these patterns are independent of other pathogenic properties of family environment. Abuse was associated with greater use of dissociation, but covariance analysis revealed this effect to be accounted for…