Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Reviews theoretical and empirical studies on ethnic designation and ethnic identification skills and group preferences as they relate to Chicano children. Suggests that children's cultural heritage is an environmental factor that has a direct or indirect impact on their developmental outcome. (JAC)

Explores the tension between the manner in which intergroup language differences are used to symbolize group membership and the manner in which they mirror and reinforce social class and power distinctions. (EKN)

Examined the consistency of student identification with subcultures in the Clark-Trow typology and determined that identification with a subculture during the undergraduate years is associated with choices 10 years later. (Author)

In a precollege counseling program seven paraprofessionals (graduate students) received higher ratings than 20 full-time professionals. The common bond of being students helped the paraprofessionals in counseling entering freshmen. Greater sensitivity (higher correlation between need and service rendered) for paraprofessionals in concerns about…

Explored the relationship between social interest, life changes, and individual mood states. Social interest was positively correlated with number of recent life changes and negatively correlated with total mood disturbance. High social interest individuals reported less subjective mood disturbances associated with perceived stress. (Author)

Examined judgments of intolerance given by children, adolescents, and adults toward disagreeing others. The evidence suggested that intolerance may be a lower level of reasoning in a social cognitive developmental progression. (Author/DB)

Girls taking A-level mathematics were compared with girls taking A-level French on masculinity/femininity, parental identification, and attitudes toward their school subjects. Subject choice was related to both parents' attitudes, but subject attitudes related only to the mothers' attitudes. (Editor/SJL)

Sixty-four university art students identified themselves as "art student,""marginal," or "professional artist" and provided information on age, sex, art and academic experiences, and parental factors. Consistent with the professionalization model of occupational socialization, all these factors, except parents and years of formal art training,…

In this paper, cognitive and behavioral approaches are combined into a theoretical framework for understanding ethnicity. A case study from Yauri, Nigeria, is presented to demonstrate the value of this combined approach. (Author/MC)

A review of research literature in the area of male roles and middle age suggests that adherence to the traditional male role may be deleterious to readjustment during middle-age transitions. Traditional roles require men to have characteristics that are questioned during the middle years. (Author)

Teenagers were questioned regarding perceived quality of parenting , personal adjustment, and political-social-personal attitudes and values. Those who perceived their parents as below average tended toward an adversarial orientation to adults and adult values. Mutual disidentification between parent and child may be an early cause of adolescent…

Contrary to popular assumptions, divorce backgrounds were not predictive of lower scores on measures of ego development, locus of control, and identity achievement. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that female offspring develop personality types more congruent with their parental-pair type. Degrees of congruence between male offspring and their parents' personality types conform to chance expectation. (Author)