Moderate correlations are reported between 27 maternal scores on the Authoritarian Family Ideology scale, the Washington University Sentence Completion Test for Ego Development, and kindergarten children's (12 girls and 15 boys) classroom behavior and cognitive test scores. Results confirmed predictions of significant negative correlations between maternal ideology scores, group cognitive test performance, and task-oriented classroom behavior, but not between the ideology scores and individual test performance.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
BaumrindD. E.Current patterns of parental authority. Developmental Psychology, 1971, 4, No. 1, Pt. 2.
2.
BaumrindD.An exploratory study of socialization effects on black children: Some black-white comparisons. Child Development, 1972, 43, 261–267.
3.
BayleyN.SchaeferE.Correlations of maternal and child behaviors with the development of mental abilities: Data from the Berkeley Growth Study. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1964, 29, No. 6 (Serial No. 94).
4.
ErnhartC. B.LoevingerJ.Authoritarian family ideology: A measure, its correlates and its robustness. Multivariate Behavioral Research Monographs, 1969, 4, No. 69-1.
5.
JordanT. E.The influence of age and social class on Authoritarian Family Ideology. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1970, 5, 193–201.
6.
JordanT. E.Influences on vocabulary attainment: A five-year prospective study. Child Development, 1978, 49, 1096–1106.
7.
JordanT. E.SpannerS. D.Biological and ecological influences on development at 48 and 60 months of age. Psychological Reports, 1974, 34, 119–124.
8.
KenneyE. T.Ego development and authoritarian attitudes in four groups of mothers with children who differ in IQ and school adjustment. Dissertation Abstracts International, 1965, 16, 1777–1778.
LoevingerJ.Ego development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1976.
11.
LoevingerJ.SweetB.Construction of a test of mothers' attitudes. In GlidewellJ. C. (Ed.), Parental attitudes and child behavior. Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1961. Pp. 110–123.
12.
LoevingerJ.WesslerR.Measuring ego development. Vol. I. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1970.
13.
LoevingerJ.WesslerR.RedmoreC.Measuring ego development. Vol. II. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1970.
14.
MossM. H.Test of basic experiences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
15.
SchaeferE. S.AaronsonM. R.Classroom Behavior Inventory: Preschool to Primary. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Mental Health, 1966.
16.
TrotmanF. D.Race, IQ, and the middle class. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977, 69, 266–273.
17.
WhiteS. H.Some general outlines of the matrix of developmental changes between five and seven years. Bulletin of the Orton Society, 1970, 20, 41–57.
