Questionnaire results indicated the majority of daughters who have a good relationship with their mothers see themselves and their mothers as feminist. However, they do not attribute their positive relationship explicitly to feminism. For daughters who claim to have a poor relationship with their mothers, they do attribute the problems to…

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…

A study of alienation among 32 Black high school students of both sexes indicated that the students were alienated from both society and school. The hypothesis that females are less alienated than males was not supported. A reconsideration of the concept of matriarchy, as applied to the Black lower class adolescent is proposed. (Author/CM)

Investigated differences between what people believe is proper premarital sexual behavior, what they do and what they think others are doing at five stages of dating. Results indicated persons are more restrictive in beliefs, more permissive in behavior, and most permissive in perceptions of others. During the early stages of dating, males and…

Explored the relationship between youthful subculture attitudes toward hedonism, immediate gratification, and drug use in a longitudinal study of California youths (N=23 and N=72). Specific attitude measures indicated no relationship between degree of drug use and youth subculture attitudes. (JAC)

Assesses the effect of exposure to different family structures (single parent families, reconstituted families, intact families) on the marital socialization of 127 males and 194 female adolescents. (Author/CM)

Concludes that relationships of dominance and dependence in the outside society foster inhibitions to the process of identification, and disturbances in the mechanisms of defense in the Mexican American adolescent. (Author/BL)

Examined how Parisian adolescents (N=403) perceived their relationships. Found that images in test drawings associated with the fantasies of attraction toward the other sex, along with the ambiguities which characterize adolescence, rather than the reality of their relationships, influenced the subjects' responses. (Author/ABB)

University students viewed a young woman in a socially oriented role-play that portrayed either a smoker or a nonsmoker. Smoker was rated more outgoing and sophisticated, less easy to manipulate, and less emotional than nonsmoker. No differences were found on other measures. Results are related to previous studies. (Author/EMK)

Uses a cross-sectional design to assess the reasoning of 65 children and adolescents in four age groups about kibbutz socio-political norms and issues. Responses to seven dilemmas are used to construct a developmental model of ideology labeled as kibbutzism, a variant of socialism circumscribed by the kibbutz. (JAC)

The hypothesis studied was derived from the work of control theorists: that self-esteem would be higher for offenders "removed" from conventional ties, lower for those maintaining conventional attachments. Family background and self-esteem scores of 75 male delinquents strongly supported this hypothesis. Implications for incarceration are drawn.…

Examined whether the projected class of destination of adolescents would have greater impact on their political orientations than their class of origin, in a survey of 665 high school seniors. Concluded that the projected class of destination of adolescents has a greater impact for both males and females. (JAC)

Investigates the effects of gender, race, demographic, and sex role variables on date and mate preferences of 168 college students 18 to 22 years of age. Personality characteristics were found to be most important in choosing a date or mate. The study provides no support for the rating-dating complex described by Waller. (RMH)