This article extends the work in the area of academic achievement among adolescents through an examination of the role clique membership plays in determining grades students receive. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to identify the common denominators in the background of adolescent high school students that could account for the presence of school phobia. (Author/RK)

This study provided a preliminary examination of the impact of the college experience on political attitudes during the final years of adolescence. (Author/RK)

Resource theory predicts a negative change in perception of parents by youth as they advance through high school. This theory was tested as 1820 inner city youth answered 54 items comprising four factors: Parental Permissiveness, Seeking Parental Advice, Family Estrangement and Family Disagreement. (Editor/RK)

Self-perception differences of sixth- and twelfth-grade subjects were measured with the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and the youngsters' choices of an ideal personality trait were studied. (Editor)

Describes a small group discussion project involving students and teachers in two large white suburban high schools. The project's intention was to focus discussion on the social quality of the relationship between students and teachers, and to assess the impact of the discussions on student perceptions. (Author/RK)

This study examined a group of white middle class adolescents from a high school where there exists a significant sub-group who engages in activities whose purpose is to reform society and protest what they see as social or moral injustices. (Author/RK)

This paper presented data that replicated and extended the landmark study by Coleman, done in 1957 and 1958, and attempted to answer two questions: a) does sports participation remain as the primary determinant of adolescent male status? and b) under what conditions is sports participation the most important status for high school males?…

Reports on findings from a study which has attempted to more fully examine the relationship between religiosity and both sexual attitudes and behavior for the same sample of subjects. (Author/RK)

Investigates heroin abusers maintaining themselves in suburban schools, and correlates of heroin abuse, many related to the educational system. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine the extent of smoking in a high school population, to identify the relationship between students' smoking status and conditions contributing to the continuation of smoking among students. (Author/RK)

Does the experience of living in a foreign culture for the period of one year change the adolescent's acceptance of ethnic and racial integration? Attitudes of secondary students at the American School of Sao Paulo were examined to shed light on the question. (Author/RK)

Details the responses of young, urban, college-educated people on their attitudes toward homosexuals, specifically focusing on issues of public identification and negative labeling as it effects homosexual persons and their behaviors. (Author/RK)

Intensively surveys samples of specific groups (both students and adults) on their differential perceptions of use of specific drugs or drug types. (Author/RK)

Examined the eidetic imagery, verbalization, and social interaction related to adolescents' smoking behavior in a high school environment. Interventions aimed at helping adults stop smoking were considered applicable to teenagers. (Author/DB)