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1118.1 An investigation on the development of family responsibility, Yuan Zhang, Zhe jiang
University, China
Family responsibility is a part of traditional morality. The thesis has adopted the questionnaire
compiled by myself to investigate 447 students from primary school to university. Results show
that: there is a great improve of the cognition development of family responsibility during the high
grade of the primary school. Different from it, there are some declines during the middle school in
the development of emotion. Then, the development of internal motivation is quite slow. And
Gender difference is very clear in the investigation, female students trend to have more family
responsibility than male students. At last, the reasons are also discussed in the thesis.
1118.2 Junior high school students’social support and its relationship with personality variables,
Wendao Li 1 , Xia Zhao 2 , Cunyan Ma 1 , 1 Beijing Normal University, China; 2 China Youth and
Children Research Center, China
This research explored the characteristics of junior high school students' social support from the
perspective of both social support providers and social support receivers, trying to investigate the
influence of receivers' personality on their perceived social support. The research found: 1.There
were significant correlations between students' perceived social support and provided social
support from mothers and teachers. Provided social support had significant direct effect on
perceived social support. 2.The students of different personality categories had significant
difference in perceived social support. 3.Openness and conscientiousness each had significant
direct effects and indirect effects on perceived social support.
1118.3 Family variables promoting south african students’ productive coping skills: A
cross-cultural study, Martin J.L. Jooste, Petria Eloff, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Aim: Whether family variables predict productive coping of first-years in the main cultural and
SES groups at two universities. Participants: N=433, mean= 20 years. Measures: Moos Family
Environment Scale (FES), Frydenburg & Lewis' Adult Coping Scale (ACS) and a biographical
questionnaire (BQ). The design utilized step-wise multiple linear regression of FES and BQ
effects on ACS variables. Findings on independent variables: Afrikaans (higher SES): Active
recreation, moral-religious emphasis and family cohesion. English (higher SES): Organization and
moral-religious emphasis. Zulu (combined SES):Active recreation, organization and income.
Sotho (combined SES): Conflict management, independence, number of siblings and active
recreation.
1118.4 How well do you know your Child? A prevention project designed to build resources for
low income Brazilian parents, Cristina Berthoud 1 , Adriana Oliveira 2 , Eleonora Silva 2 ,
1 2
University of Taubeth, Brazil; University of Taubat&Eacute, Brazil
The research was conducted as a first phase of a prevention program target to low-income parents.
A questionnaire was applied to parents living in a poor community, with the purpose of analyzing
their level of information about the normal development of children and adolescents and, specially,
about health ways of raising and educating children. The results showed parents have limited
knowledge and almost no access to professionals and/or materials to help them. This survey was
further used as a basis to the design of an educational material, constituted by booklets about
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