ABSTRACT
The child’s adjustment to the family depends on his/her concurrence with parental views concerning appropriate goals and behaviour and sufficient selfcontrol on the child’s part to enact those views. It also should depend on a tolerant, supportive family style, which can accommodate occasional deviant behaviour with concern but without excessively punitive discipline. Replication of the effects of these family and child characteristics on adjustment is the subject of the next chapter. Here we are only concerned with the measurement of family practices and roles, their interrelationships and their demographic correlates.
