The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences
between middle- and lower-class adolescents and the extent of their
self-disclosure to their mothers and their fathers; and their feelings
both positive and negative toward their parents and themselves.
The subjects consisted of 50 middle-class and 50 lower-class
adolescents who...
The present study was designed to examine the relationship
between expressed attitudes toward child-rearing, and children's
social behavior in a preschool setting. More specifically, the study
was concerned with the association of parental authoritarian, hostile-rejecting,
and democratic attitudes with the aggressive and cooperative
peer interactions of preschool children. Under investigation...
This study examined children's memory for traditional and nontraditional
parental behaviors displayed in story content. Subjects
were 40 male and 40 female preschool children between the ages of 47
and 60 months. Children were read a story portraying a mother and a
father as the main characters. Each character performed...
This study focused on the relationship between parental attitudes
and the conscience orientation of children, testing the hypotheses that
(1) parents who had children with an external conscience orientation
would show significantly greater disparity between their independence
granting and achievement inducement attitudes than parents whose
children had conventional or humanistic...