A child learns very early in his life that there is a great disparity between truth and social propriety. He quickly accomodates himself to this situation in order to avoid unpleasant experiences. (CK)

School disordered children, and institutionalized children to a greater degree, under perceived threat to the self arising from concepts related to family and school, attach greater meaning to those aspects ofenvironment than the school adjusted children. Successful adjustment to school, at least in terms of children's perceptions, tends to be…

Study explores how patterns of school friends' and parents' influence converge within the school and the role of the school in shaping adolescents' plans. One conclusion is that school program is more influential in the United States. (Author/DB)

Findings show that the familial group, including kin, is perceived to be most important in various areas of interest. The friendship group is important only in the social world of the student, and teachers are consistently overlooked in all areas. The pattern remains the same when differences in socioeconomic status and other social…

This paper is based on a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. (DR)

A total of 87 infants 10 months of age received, either directly or indirectly, a positive nonverbal message, a neutral nonverbal message, or no message about a stranger. Infants, especially those with easy temperaments, were friendlier to the stranger when mothers had spoken positively, but only when the message was directly communicated.…

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the 1972 High School Class, young Black and White women who expected to be homemakers (at age 30) were disproportionately represented by fathers with lower occupational status, nonemployed mothers, rural residences, nonacademic track placement, and lower scholastic performance. As expected, racial…

There is a need to develop and implement courses and/or workshops in parenting and education for parenthood as it relates to preventing drug abuse. Presents a topical outline and suggestions for parents which can be utilized in a formal course and/or workshop. (Author)

Surveyed 100 nondrinking adolescents utilizing a behavior analysis questionnaire designed to assess influences on learning not to drink. Results suggest that parents who did not drink had a strong influence. Effective modes of self-control were also discovered; teenagers revealed assertiveness skills in saying "no" to peer pressures. (Author/JAC)

Examined the effects of maternal employment on parent-youth similarity using a sample of 647 father-mother-youth triads. Found maternal employment had few impacts on the father's influence except for fathers having slightly greater influence in expressive areas. Maternal employment appeared to lower the influence of the mother. (Author)

Investigates adolescents' perceptions of impressions held about them by important others, focusing on cross-sectional differences from early to late adolescence in the structure of social self-conceptions, on differences between parental and peer social self-conceptions and between individual and social self-conceptions, and on adolescents'…

A study was done on the responsibility of schools for providing smoking education programs consistent with current information. Results indicate an omission of planned experiences in high school curricula concerning the effects of smoking on health. (JN)

Examined the relationships between Puerto Rican, Black, and Anglo adolescent children's career aspirations, expectations, and maturity and their parents' career values and career aspirations for them. Results suggest that career behavior differentially affects adolescent children's career development and that parent-child interaction may be…

Aims of study were (1) test for independence in infant's attachment to parent, (2) test concept of security by viewing infants judged secure versus insecure with mother in situation designed to arouse apprehension, (3) examine effects of infant-parent relationships upon positive responsiveness to new persons, and (4) identify characteristics of…