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In the August 1959 issue of "Marriage and Family Livings" authors described a method for studying the influence of family culture patterns on attitudes and behavior of teenagers. Here they present some of the results they have obtained from use of this method in evaluating the influence of selected facets of family culture on delinquent-type behavior reported by 3,242 teen-age students in the state of Washington. The great majority of respondents acknowledged having committed one or more delinquent-type acts one or more times. A considerable number had committed many such acts many times. Considering all five acts in combination it was possible to classify respondents into categories with characteristic patterns of delinquent-type behavior. Substantial differences were found between boys and girls. Boys were much more likely than girls to be in the delinquent-type category. Evidence was found that family values and standards are related to delinquent-types behavior.

Schedules from 4,310 high-school seniors, representative of all high-school seniors in the state of Washington, were used in an attempt to apply a measure of family authoritarianism to residential and occupational groups and to relate family authority patterns to the adjustment problems of teen- agers. Likert-type questions and Guttman scaling techniques were used in developing a measure of authoritarianism, based on the students' conception of their family patterns. Almost twice as many boys as girls placed their families in the democratic category. City families were not strikingly more democratic than farm families. The small-town family, as appraised by the boys, was far more democratic than either the farm or the city family. Teen-agers in democratic families apparently have more harmonious relationships with their parents than those in authoritarian families. Those in democratic families also report fewer adjustment problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the role of sorority or fraternity organization in personal adjustment. It makes a comparative study to measure the adjustment levels between 864 sorority and non-sorority women students of the State College of Washington at Pullman, Washington in 1942. The Bell Inventory test was conducted to measures their home, health, social and emotional adjustment. The Bell Inventory experiment found that the sorority girls showed advantages over the non-sorority girls in the home, social and emotional adjustments.