| Abstract: | Assessed the relationship of maternal traditional ideology to adolescent problem behavior in a correlational study. Mothers of 184 junior and senior high school students were interviewed about their beliefs about society and morality and about their child-rearing practices; their sons and daughters responded separately to questionnaires that included reports of their own behavior with respect to alcohol and marihuana use, sex, and political activism. Results of the correlational analyses supported the main hypothesis that the more traditional the mother's ideology, the less the adolescent's involvement in problem behavior. A 2nd hypothesis, that maternal affectional interaction and controls, taken in conjunction with ideological beliefs, would account for more of the variation in adolescent problem behavior, was partially supported. In general, the associations between mother's ideology and adolescent behavior were stronger for daughters than for sons. (24 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
