Male and female college students were administered the Berzins-Welling ANDRO scale, a measure of psychological androgyny, and the Parent Behavior Form. The results indicate that new conceptualizations of sex role orientations, which consider masculine and feminine characteristics to be independent, uncorrelated dimensions, are distinctively…

An anonymous survey of adolescents (N=3,690) was used to assess how much of the unique variance in adolescents' self-reported drug use was accounted for by number of parents in comparison to the adolescents' sex, age, social class, and peer drug use. (Author)

Presents a conceptual framework for analyzing academic achievement and learning in light of school differences. Findings do not support the prevailing belief among sociologists of education, teachers, and parents that school differences are closely related to academic achievement. Additional research is suggested. (Author/DB)

Compared family interactions of intact families with clinically depressed mothers with those of normal families. Analyzed nonverbal affective behavior. Depressed mothers emitted significantly higher rates of dysphoric affect and lower rates of happy affect than did normal mothers. Interactions between mother's dysphoric affect and family's…

Compared ego identity in adolescents identified as having behavioral problems with those reported not to have behavior problems. Found ego identity achievement, including trust, initiative, and identity, but not autonomy and industry, significantly greater in those without behavior problems. Adolescents who had achieved a higher degree of identity…

The study examined whether differences existed between experimental and control groups in maternal language and children's receptive language five years after a home-based intervention program. Mothers were interviewed and asked to tell stories to their children. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test was administered to the children, with the…

Parents' use of questions, statements, and levels of demands placed on preschool children to use representational thought, were examined in relation to sex composition of the parent-child dyad, task, family constellation, and social class. (PCB)

Discusses the influence of home computers on school education and the effects of parental involvement in children's education. Trends in home computers in the United States are presented, and research projects examining home use of computers for education are reviewed. (Author/LRW)

Adolescent drinking is influenced by parental modeling of drinking, parental attitudes toward children's drinking, and especially by parent-child conflict. The influence varies depending on the adolescent's age, race, and sex. Conflict is a key variable which may be both cause and effect of adolescent drinking. (VM)

Tested the effectiveness of program for parents to help their adolescent children in career planning using pretest-posttest control group design. Found significant effects for groups over time; of five parent-child relations and career development variables, career orientation and career items proved significant; results approached significance…

Examined pervasive family patterns and values and their implications for an effective alcohol education program on a college campus. Explored alcohol attitudes and behaviors modeled by parents of incoming freshmen, parental attitudes toward student drinking, parental knowledge of student drinking, and student drinking patterns. (Author/ABB)

A study examined demographic, impairment-related, and parental variables that best predicted self-concept among 49 severely to profoundly hearing-impaired 5- to 11-year-olds. A strong relationship was observed between self-concept and parental indulgence, parental rejection, parental protection, parental discipline, and extent of language…

Article reviews research focusing exclusively on the reading knowledge of preschool children who have not begun schooling and have not received formal reading instruction. The categories are (1) studies that document what preschool children learn about reading (informally at home or in preschool), and (2) studies that tell us how children learn…

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching conducted a nationwide survey of high school seniors and their parents. Parents and how they shape their youngsters' post-high school plans, the qualities they look for in a college, and what they expect their children to gain are discussed. (MLW)