The passage of time is fundamentally experienced through people's interaction with their social worlds. Life-course scholars acknowledge the multiple aspects of time-based experience but have given little attention to age identity in a dynamic context. Drawing from a stress-process model, we expected that turbulence within people's family…

Nineteen variables measuring environmental process, environmental press, and child rearing practices and attitudes were used to perform a cluster analysis of families with trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children. Five different family types were identified: (1) cohesive, harmonious; (2) control-oriented, somewhat unharmonious; (3)…

Scores on a mental development scale were correlated for 8-month-old twins and other sibling pairs. Greater correlations were found between twins than sibling pairs. (ST)

The paper describes a theoretical framework for the study of cognitive and affective behavior of deaf children that relates social-psychological family variables and global classificatory variables to children's outcomes. An interactionism framework assuming that behavior is the result of continuous interaction between persons and the situations…

Tests the hypothesis that first born children are subjected to greater parental control than children born later. The subjects were 820 children aged 10-14, in a comprehensive school in Sweden. (Author/MP)

The home environments of 74 infants were assessed when the infants were 6 and 24 months old. At three years of age their language development was measured. Results demonstrated that it is possible to specify some of the parameters of early experience related to certain aspects of language development. (Author/JMB)

The effects of father absence and stepfathers on cognitive performance were assessed using the Embedded Figures Test and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of 96 college students. (Author)

A literature review on families of gifted and talented individuals sought to determine the importance of several broad areas on talent development (structural or demographic characteristics, family climate or environment, values espoused and/or enacted by parents). Family climate variables differed between individuals exhibiting creative versus…

Factor analysis of variables relating to adolescents' perception of their home environment suggested five factors: extent of punishment, amount of chores at home, perceived parental control, absense of parents, and parents' attitude toward authority figures. Controlling for sex and age, these fators accounted for sizable portions of variance in…

Parental responses (N=125) to scaled items in home interviews were factor analyzed and family environment dimensions were employed as predictor variables. Parents of proficient readers were characterized as adapted to their children's deafness, involved in the deaf community, and permissive rather than overprotective. High achievers had parents…

Examined household crowding and loneliness and their effect on suicide ideation among a general sample of the population (N=247) in an urban area. Data indicated that the variables of household crowding and loneliness were significantly associated with the extent of suicide ideation. (LLL)

Presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship of family and aesthetics. Reviews the aesthetics of family policymaking and presents aesthetic sensibilities in enhancing family environment. Suggests the aesthetic in the existence and form of the family as a new way of viewing family relations. (JAC)

Mothers (N=67) of moderately mentally retarded children perceived their family climate as not encouraging such intense relationships in expressiveness or as much personal growth in independence and recreation orientation as six mothers of nondisabled children. (Author/CL)

The emotional development of the exceptional child is discussed in terms of the child experiencing fun in his individual childhood play and in family activities. (CB)