Argues (1) that Feinman (1982) and Campos (1983) agree that 10-month-old infants are able to use their mother's emotional expression to come to an appraisal of a third event and (2) that this claim is supported by studies of mother-infant interaction and communication. (Author/RH)

Suggests that the determinants of individual differences in parental functioning are illuminated by research on the etiology of child maltreatment. Three domains of determinants include parents' personal psychological resources, child characteristics, and contextual sources of stress and support. A process model of competent parental functioning…

The nature and purpose of parental speech in the language acquisition process of the young child is explored in this article. The effect of the quality and quantity of parental speech on the child's language development and linguistic interactions among language-delayed children are discussed. (DF)

While a variety of scales and instruments to measure parental support exist, most of these have not received adequate analysis. Utilizing two bodies of data, the widely used Heilbrun, Cornell, and Schaefer measures of parental support were examined. Results are presented. (Author)

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between levels of hope and perceived parental authority style in college students (N=251). It was expected that there would be a positive relationship between authoritative parenting and students' levels of hope. It was also expected that there would be a negative relationship between…

This study tracked the language preference of three French/English bilingual children, twin girls aged 12.8 and a boy 14.8, over a five year period. Their parents, who are also the authors, actively worked to raise them bilingual. The girls were enrolled in a school French immersion program throughout the study. Their brother had only one semester…

Several personal and social factors thought to influence college students' smoking were investigated by surveying a sample of college students who smoke (n=56) and do not smoke (n=160). Personal motivating factors examined were relaxation effects, image effects, competence effects, and stimulant effects. These personal reasons for smoking were…

Over the past decade, a quite sophisticated body of research and data has developed on the implications of welfare reform and devolution for children and on the development of children in low-income families more generally. However, policy initiatives and findings from recent research suggest several ways to improve and expand available data.…

Results suggested that boys identify with a culturally defined, masculine role, that girls show a similar tendency, and that neither sex imitates the same-sexed parent consistently. (Author)

Article investigated the way to christianize the child and how parents can be instrumental. (RK)

Authors present a dialogue about people liberation.'' (CB)

The need is for a massive coordinated effort to continuously educate parents, teachers, and the adult citizenry on the importance of how to positively perceive and act toward children. (Author)

Describes the development of educational programs for students from Lappland as provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Education. (RK)

The results of this investigation, employing the newly-constructed Doll Play Technique as an instrument for obtaining young children's perceptions, support the thesis that the young child's behavior is related to his perceptions of his parents' attributes. (Author)