Discusses family influence on health care by addressing questions about appropriate selection of informants and data sources when investigating family and health concerns, questions about sample selection and the ability to generalize findings to the population as a whole, and questions concerning the subject's ability to differentiate between…

Tested a model linking structural and interpersonal family variables with self-concept variables of self-esteem and son/daughter identity salience (relative importance of being a son or daughter for defining one's self) for 655 high school students. Family support was found to have largest effects on self-concept variables (yielding positive…

Reviews the information advanced by the literature on Hispanic students and urges that it be used to help empower Hispanic students through continuation of their education. Offers suggestions for future research. (LHW)

Investigated whether family interaction influences the acting-out behavior of hospitalized adolescent psychiatric patients. Found families did contribute to acting out in the hospital but that the majority of acting out was not directly related to family contact. Recommends that the hospital engage the family in treatment and consider family…

Women are the primary producers of food in developing countries and can be empowered to become catalysts in the struggle to combat world hunger. It is important to understand the problem and the barriers women face and to appreciate the progress made by women in developing countries. (JOW)

Administrator recounts experience growing up in alcoholic home, hoping to inspire other school professionals helping young people with substance abuse problems. Although helping others seems natural for adult children of alcoholics, certain unconsciously held attitudes and behaviors can impede school prevention and recovery programs. Organizations…

An author discusses personal experiences and attitudes that have influenced her writing. (EL)

Compared purging bulimics (N=26), non-purging bulimics (N=24), and controls with no apparent eating problems, on personality and demographic variables. Results linked bulimics with low self-esteem, high anxiety, external locus of control, and high incidence of maternal and family obesity. No significant differences were found between purgers and…

Interviewed two-children families, comprised of 200 parents which included both mothers and fathers. Significant correlations were found between wife's number of siblings, desired family size of both spouses, and future family size. No significant relationship was found between sex of children and preferred family size. (Author/MCF)

This article gives insight into why individuals become committed to a sport role. Commitment may be attributed to intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and satisfactions. A typology of sport roles is presented utilizing a three-dimensional model of commitment to explain identity within a sport role. (Author/DF)

Kentucky public school students were surveyed to observe family influence on smoking behavior. Those children whose families were involved in tobacco production held more favorable attitudes towards smoking than their nontobacco family peers. Development of effective smoking education programs in major tobacco states is suggested. (Author/ DF)

There is a need to generate an improved American educational perspective that does not deliberately undermine and/or destroy the basic structure of the family by devaluing the very processes and behaviors required to develop and maintain that essential structure over time. To accomplish this, the idea of the existence of acceptable behavior codes,…

This chapter provides an overview of the family assessment process for educators who work in school settings. Although school counselors and other school mental health professionals will most likely implement the formal assessment procedures outlined in this chapter, all school personnel need to consider family issues that may occasion academic,…

Over several years, challenges have been made to traditional theories of career choice. One of these challenges has been to consider the contexts in which individuals live and how this can influence career choices. The purpose of this model is to create a framework to explain the influences on career choices over the lifespan. The term "career…