Daily family conflict and emotional distress among adolescents from Latin American, Asian, and European backgrounds.

The authors employed a daily diary method to assess daily frequencies of interparental and parent–adolescent conflict over a 2-week period and their implications for emotional distress across the high school years in a longitudinal sample of 415 adolescents from Latin American, Asian, and European backgrounds. Although family conflict remained fairly infrequent among all ethnic backgrounds across the high school years, its impact on emotional distress was significant across ethnicity and gender. In addition, parent–adolescent conflict significantly mediated the association between interparental conflict and emotional distress. These associations were observed at both the individual and the daily levels, providing evidence for both the chronic and episodic implications of family conflict for adolescents’ emotional adjustment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Beyond neighborhood poverty: Family management, neighborhood disorder, and adolescents’ early sexual onset.

The authors examined how neighborhood disorder modifies associations between family management practices and youth transitions to sex among low-income African American and Latino urban families. The sample included 846 young adolescents and their mothers who participated in Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study. Results from multilevel logistic regression models indicated no main effects of family management practices or neighborhood-level conditions on transitions to sex once accounting for demographics. However, higher levels of family routines and parental knowledge (i.e., awareness of youths’ friends, whereabouts, and activities) were more strongly associated with a lower probability of youth sexual onset as neighborhood disorder increased. Results provide further evidence for the contextually specific nature of parenting impacts on adolescent adjustment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school.

Everyday patterns of interaction can strengthen or undermine bonds between family members. This naturalistic observation study focused on an understudied facet of family life: opportunities for interaction among dual-earner family members after work and family members’ responses to these opportunities. Thirty dual-earner couples and their children were observed and video-recorded in their homes throughout two weekday afternoons and evenings. Two interaction opportunities were analyzed: (1) the behavior of family members toward a parent returning home from work and (2) the physical proximity of family members throughout the evening. Three main findings emerged. Women, who tended to return home before men, were greeted with positive behavior and reports of the day’s information from family members. Men, in contrast, returned home later in the day and received positive behavior or no acknowledgment from family members distracted by other activities. Throughout the evening, mothers spent more time with children whereas fathers spent more time alone. Couples were seldom together without their children. The implications of observed interaction patterns and the contribution of naturalistic observation methods to the study of family relationships are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Treatment 1: Notes from an Informal Discussion on Interinstitutional Design Research and Image Production

Since 2003, Benjamin Bratton and Hernan Diaz-Alonso have conducted a series of parallel theory seminars and design studios at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). These collaborations have addressed questions of collectivity at varying scales: personal (between two individuals, each with separate professional practices), institutional (between two disciplinary positions, one analytical and the other creative) and cultural (between what is inside and outside the architectural imaginary). The work featured in the article represents another primary mandate of their interinstitutional project: the transdisciplinary implications of design as a general form of practice as opposed to the historical definitions of ‘architecture’ or the architect. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

家庭档案重要性之我见

随着社会的进步和发、家庭成员活动的日渐频繁、家庭生活内容的日渐充实、现代家庭档案日渐丰富,现代家庭档案所起的作用也日益明显,但现代社会成员对现代家庭档案的重要性缺乏足够的认识,本从四个方面阐述了家庭档案的价值所在。     

影响家庭投资高等教育的因素分析

针对当前社会对高层次人才的需求急增,我国家庭投资高等教育的热潮正在兴起的现状,从社会背景的投资动机两个对影响家庭投资高等教育的因素进行了分析;运用发展经济学理论分析了家庭投资高等教育的成本－效益,并结合我国实际,国有针对性地提出了强化家庭加大高等教育投资的主要措施。     

路、堤、渠、坝的数字边坡模型

讨论了路、堤、渠、坝边坡坡面的形成及边坡坡面等高线的作图方法 ,在建立变径圆族包络线参数方程的基础上 ,建立了锥顶沿圆柱螺旋线、水平圆弧、直线运动的常用的边坡坡面的参数方程 ,准确绘制边坡坡面的等高线、坡度线 .该数学模型为路、堤、渠、坝的边坡坡面设计提供了一种准确、方便、适用于数字化设计的数学模型 .     

我国民营企业的困境与突破

分析了民营企业失败的主要根源,针对民营企业面临着处理集权与分权的难题和决策高风险的危机,提出民营企业成长壮大必须实现三大突破——企业家自身突破、家族制管理模式突破与产权制度突破．     

论学习主体需要与激励

学习主体即学生的学习行为是在某种需要的激励下发生的 .研究这种需要并通过某种手段激励它 ,它对学习主体成才极其重要 .这种激励的手段主要有 :目标激励、榜样激励、奖惩奖励、群体激励、情感激励等