ABSTRACT
Specific findings concerning family structure and youth attitudes serve to illustrate both methodology and results of the larger study. Potentially confounding variables have been rigorously controlled by these analysis-of-variance methods. The availability of a very large sample and the use of complex factorial designs make it possible to study a variety of family structure variables as they affect the responses of youth to the problem and attitude inventories. Family size can be varied from no siblings to nine or more brothers or sisters while at the same time parental pattern, sex of respondent, and other factors in the same design are being considered. The chapter illustrates the interaction between the sex of the respondent and the number of siblings in creating family tension. It shows the interaction between parental pattern and level of real father's education when considering the young person's resentment of family life style.
