Senior nursing students (n=350) completed the Caring Ability Inventory, Parental Bonding instrument, and a school climate inventory. Those with highest caring ability scored at both highest and lowest levels of maternal care. Caring school climate was the strongest predictor of caring ability, but only 52% rated their schools high in caring. (SK)

Advances debate on the causal mechanism involved in the link between marital conflict and children's development by addressing three issues: (1) identifying basic processes in emotion; (2) operationalizing theories in order to differentiate between their predictions; and (3) designing research to identify causal mechanisms. Asserts that Davies and…

Explores how aspects of a father's religiousness are related to the type and quality of involvement with his children. Results indicate that religious fathers are more involved fathers and that they report higher quality relationships. Greater involvement of religious fathers is explained only in part by demographic factors and the mediating…

Holding family-of-origin occupational characteristics constant, both White and African American men from female-headed one-parent families did as well in terms of socioeconomic attainment and occupational status as did men from families with two biological parents. In contrast, father-headed one-parent families and stepfamilies negatively affected…

Examined relation of emotional regulation strategies to angry affect during a frustration task in a sample of low-income boys. Found that shifting attention away from sources of frustration and seeking information about situation constraints were associated with decreased anger, and secure attachment and positive maternal control correlated with…

Studies of (TD) and (ING) in King of Prussia (Pennsylvania) families show that children have matched their parents' patterns of variation by age seven, before many categorical phonological and grammatical rules can be established. Some dialect-specific and socially marked constraints are acquired before constraints with general articulatory…

Claims little factual evidence exists for proposition that child rearing styles and family environments are formative of personality traits. Contends nonintellectual traits seem to be determined instead by genetic influences and relatively specific environmental influences, most of which are particularly tied to the family or parental treatments.…

Summarizes results of a study of parents and young adolescents and argues that economic recessions affect children by conditioning their aspirations, straining their relations with their parents, and limiting the quality of the education they receive. (PCB)

Summarizes theories and research pertaining to the mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing works that focus on theory development or that utilize mother-daughter samples. Concludes with a brief discussion of the extent to which research supports contemporary mother-daughter theories. (TE)

Some techniques parents use in teaching the content of picture books were studied using 72 three-year-olds, whose parents read them two picture books. Testing for recall and rereading the book were found to be effective for teaching the content. (SLD)

Two studies tested three- and five-year-old children's ability to use multiple-referent and inclusion strategies to interpret new words. In both studies, children interpreted labels for single objects at the basic level. The multiple-referent and inclusion strategies led children to interpret novel words at the superordinate level. (RH)

Found that secure-secure dyads were more harmonious, less controlling, and more responsive than secure-insecure dyads. There were no differences between secure-secure and secure-insecure dyads on measures of coordinated play, cohesiveness, self-disclosure, or play tempo. (RH)

A study examined the career decision-making patterns of 3,858 high school students in Louisiana. The study also addressed the relationship between participation in vocational education and influence on student career decisions. Parents, particularly mothers, were most influential. Vocational teachers had more influence than counselors. (JOW)

The extent to which maternal behavior, children's temperament, age, and family structure variables are associated with dimensions of sibling relationships was investigated with a sample of 96 families with younger siblings aged 3-6 years and older siblings aged 5-10 years. (PCB)

Eighth-graders' (N=1,513) responses to a smoking questionnaire and a self-esteem scale revealed that 15 percent currently smoked, with another 17 percent intending to smoke. Self-esteem and parental smoking behavior significantly influenced students' smoking behavior, as did family involvement in the tobacco industry. (Author/CB)