A model based on Bandura's Social Learning Theory proposes the following personality traits as determinants of career success: locus of control, self-monitoring, self-esteem, and optimism, along with job performance and person-to-environment fit. (SK)

Explores how fairy tales address socio-emotional challenges children face during their socialization. Applies a structural theory of fairy tales to three literary versions of the Cinderella story. Suggests that the combination of simplicity of form and complexity of content makes the fairy tale a powerful tool for perception of and reflection on…

Highlights a Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, which seeks to create school cultures based on values of caring and mutual respect. High-risk students may require more intensive interventions in order to foster social and emotional learning. Reports on a multiyear pilot project using a group curriculum with strong components of service…

Observes that college athletes tend to earn fewer bachelor's degrees, take longer to do so, earn lower grades, and take less demanding curricula than students in general. Describes and evaluates a study program for freshman athletes that requires students to work cooperatively on assignments and how that fosters academic confidence. (DSK)

Interviews were held in 277 public and 116 private secondary schools in Los Angeles County. Private schools were more likely to offer opportunities for community service. However, nonsectarian private schools were less likely than public schools to offer them. Both types of private schools were more likely to require community service. (SK)

This longitudinal study examined processes involved in transactional models of socialization, focusing on maternal intrusive support for children's academic achievement. Results suggested that low achievement elicited intrusive support through the mechanisms of increased maternal worry and increased child uncertainty. Day-to-day analyses suggested…

Argues that there is little evidence that African American children are poorly trained or neglected by their families, suggesting that the values embraced by African American parents may be undermined by social structural inequities. Asserts the need to consider race, class, and gender (the central forces influencing the socialization work of…

Using the Code of Professional Conduct, 53 accounting students evaluated the ethical acceptability of accountants in case studies. Ethics instruction appeared to alter student perceptions of ethical behavior. Because time after instruction was an important factor, increased professional socialization was recommended. (SK)

Interviews with British boys in years five through eight form the basis of a suggestion that the formation of sexual identity as something biologically or psychologically fixed in early childhood should be rethought. Sociocultural practices and relationships with school, home, and society have significant effects on formation of sexual identity.…

In 1980-83, a study assessed adolescent girls' smoking, their peers' smoking, and their parents' smoking and beliefs and strictness regarding smoking. Similar assessments were made in 1995 for these girls, now mothers, and their children. Found that general and smoking-related parenting practices, as well as peer smoking, were related to…

Uses the founding visions of three educational philosophers--Horace Mann, John Dewey, and Paulo Freire--to create an ideal conception of critical participatory citizenship to guide school practices. Asserts that schools must build the capacity for moral and political conflict into the very nature of citizenship. (Contains 41 references.) (VWC)

Assesses characteristics of resiliency and help-seeking behavior among urban minority youth as related to issues of minority youth socialization and schooling. Discusses the role of help-seeking orientation in developing resiliency; developmental foundations of, and institutional influences on, help-seeking orientation; an integrated perspective…

Proposes that current research on language socialization be expanded beyond childhood, or even adolescence, to consider communicative development as a process that extends across the life span. Perhaps more than ever before, adults find themselves called on to master new communications skills as they adapt to new workplace or social situations and…

Tests the efficacy of a cueing procedure for improving the impulse regulation of four boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) during social skills training. Behavioral data suggested that all subjects demonstrated positive changes in impulse regulation. Likewise, the treatment effects appeared to have produced positive effects on…

Explores the topic of culturally relevant curriculum materials by examining the use of African American children's literature as a teaching tool. Provides a rationale, examples of instruction from actual classrooms, and reflections of personal experience from the author's childhood and professional career. Reviews various African American…