A preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/SW)

Paper was presented at the CWLA Southwest Regional Conference, Forth Worth, Texas, 1970. (NH)

Examines components of familial risk in the context of a four-year longitudinal study of children with mentally ill mothers. Risk factors examined were parental mental health, social status, parental perspectives, and family stress. Interactions among risk factors were found to be complex and different for cognitive and social-emotional…

Investigated the degree to which children's (N=2,065) racial attitudes were related to their parents' racial attitudes. Results showed that children's attitudes were positively associated with parents' attitudes regardless of the parent's sex or child's age. Beginning at about age 12, girls' attitudes became more liberal and boys' attitudes more…

Data from a longitudinal study of women and their children indicate that: (1) concepts of women's roles have become more egalitarian; (2) youth, labor force experience, and educational attainment positively influence egalitarian attitudes; (3) church attendance and identification with fundamentalist religions predict traditional outlooks; and (4)…

A survey of 470 psychology students taken after a short strike by the faculty union revealed that students exhibited somewhat greater support for strikes in an abstract situation as opposed to a concrete situation, and students with union fathers demonstrated more positive attitudes toward faculty strikes. (MLF)

Examined encouragement patterns, parental opportunity awareness, and family affect in order to assess the impact of parent-child interaction on child's attainment values. Found that the variables examined accounted for more of the variation in sons' attainment than daughters' attainment. (Author/GC)