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Download full textBoyd, Virlyn A.; Pettigrew, Nancy – 1975
Changes in marriage and procreation aspirations of South Carolina high school students between 1966 and 1973 are examined. Data were collected as part of a regional project in several Southern states. During the 1966-67 school year, all 10th grade students were interviewed in 42 randomly-selected high schools stratified by students' racial…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Black Students, Expectation, Family Planning
Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1975
As part of a larger effort to determine marital and procreative trends in the South, an historical comparison was made of two samples of Northeast Alabama high school seniors. Similar questionnaires were group administered to all seniors present on the prescribed contact day in 19 randomly selected high schools in 1966 and again in 1972. The study…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis
Marshall, Kimball P.; Cosby, Arthur G. – 1976
A process model which included the influences of social origin, encouragement, and the formation of adolescent period attitudes as antecedents of early marital and fertility behavior was constructed and evaluated using three-wave panel data obtained from 176 nonmetropolitan females from selected Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina high…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Aspiration, Attitudes
Smith, Kevin B.; Ohlendorf, George W. – 1975
Changes in marital and procreative projections among rural Louisiana high school youth between 1968 and 1972 were examined. In 1968 a proportionate, stratified, random cluster sampling technique was employed to secure data on seniors from 13 white and 7 black high schools. In 1972 public school integration and the establishment of private schools…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Blacks, Children
Smith, Kevin Burt – 1976
A theoretical model based on path analytic logic was used to examine the relative influences of social origin and significant other influences on marital, fertility, and educational plans. Parents' education and the major family income-earner's occupation were used as measures of social origin; perceived encouragement by parents, teachers,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Family Planning, Females, High School Students
Smith, Kevin B.; And Others – 1976
Data gathered via random sampling from white, unmarried high school seniors (143 males and 158 females) in rural Louisiana were utilized to test the following hypotheses: (1) social origin will affect significant other influence; (2) social origin and significant other influence will affect educational plans and will be largely mediated through…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Planning, Family Planning, High School Seniors
