ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5 we examined in detail the family relations measures used in this study and their relationship to each other and the demographic variables introduced previously. The question to pursue now is whether family relations have any implications, either directly or indirectly through their effect on coping behaviour, for the child’s adjustment. The particular aspects of family relations of concern here are: the parental practices of nurturance, protectiveness, punitiveness as rated by either the child or the responding parent; the child’s report of the performance of status and maintenance family roles by the child, the status roles by the male adults and the maintenance roles by the female adults; and the child’s description of role allocation as represented by sex-and age-role concentration and differentiation. In this chapter we will enter the family relations variables whose zero-order correlation is .10 or greater into multiple-regression analyses, along with the predictors of adjustment identified in Chapter 4. But, first, let us briefly summarize them.
