Ninety-five freshmen completed measures of attachment, family conflict, family structure, psychological distress, and social adjustment. Attachment to mother predicted less psychological distress and attachment to father and structure predicted better social adjustment. Conflict reduced attachment and predicted psychological distress. Attachment…

We studied the long-term cumulative effects of two common indices of childcare--the total number of hours of non-maternal care and the mean hour-weighted child-to-caregiver ratio per caregiving situation--on mental development and socioemotional adjustment from birth to 4.5 years old in a non-risk middle-class sample of girls and boys after taking…

This study assessed the importance of teacher preference of individual students, relative to peer rejection and student aggression, as an independent predictor of children's emotional adjustment and grades. First, a longitudinal, cross-lagged path analysis was conducted to determine the patterns of influence among teacher preference, peer…

Our study examined variations in adolescent adjustment as a function of maternal and paternal parenting styles. Participants included 272 students in grades 9 and 11 from a public high school in a metropolitan area of the Northeastern US. Participants completed measures of maternal and paternal parenting styles and indices of psychological…

Contends that the public school is responsible for the habit training of its pupils to maximize their social effectiveness. Reprint from March 1908 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)

This document begins by discussing the important role self-concept plays in a student's academic achievement, social adjustment, and physical capability. A perceptual notion of self-concept is defined as awareness through senses. An operational notion of self-concept is defined as self-descriptive behaviors. Literature is reviewed which defines…

A program under which boys in a residential treatment home paid weekend visits to foster homes proved a successful method of testing the boys' readiness to leave the institution and return to the community. (Author/CS)

The paper presents case studies of two severely and profoundly retarded adults at an activity center in which training is aimed at motor development and its impact on social adjustment as well as independent functioning. In each instance, an individualized program and home component were designed. Appended are Ss' evaluation data on charts of…

Studies seem to indicate that preparation for retirement is the key to its success. Planning includes these basic ingredients: (1) maintaining regular health habits; (2) role flexibility--the retiree needs a healthy self image not bound to the self-as-worker; (3) activity that is constructive and personally meaningful; and (4) continuance of…

The student teaching process may have features which actually interfere with the processes of learning. Many student teachers revealed in interviews that they went through humiliation, trauma, and disenchantment with teaching in their interactions with cooperating teachers, with other school personnel, and with children in the student teaching…

Selected normal children were paired in a buddy relationship with emotionally disturbed or socially maladjusted children (termed emotionally handicapped) from a special class during a summer outdoor, eight-week nature study program. Purposes were to facilitate social interaction and improve the social relationships of the emotionally handicapped…

The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of regular class placement on learning problem students. Consideration was given to academic achievement, personal and social adjustment, peer relationship, and students' perceptions of the class. Fifty seven learning problem students were selected from four types of learning disabilities classes:…

Presented is a bibliography with approximately 700 citations referring to research in the area of spinal cord injury. Entries are listed alphabetically by author under the following sections: psychological aspects (236 entries), sexual aspects (170 entries), social aspects (152 entries), and vocational aspects (134 entries). Information for each…