Thomas Ewin Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Ewin Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Ewin |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Differences Between Black and White Students in the Effect of Parental Separation on School Grades
Effects of parental separation on self-reported school grades are examined in a sample of 1,709 seventh and ninth grade public school students, 44.5 percent of whom are black. A significant statistical interaction between parental separation and race reveals a marked black/white difference in the effect of the timing of separation on grades. Only separation after the second grade has a significant negative effect on the white students, while only…
What a Difference a Measure Makes: Parental-Separation Effect on School Grades, not Academic Achievement
On the basis of empirical evidence that non-ability factors are more important determinants of school grades than of academic achievement test results, it is assumed that a student's social environment will affect grades more than scores on achievement tests. That assumption is a part of the basis for the hypothesis that parental separation will have a stronger negative effect on school grades than on academic achievement scores. The hypothesis i…
Socioeconomic Stratification in Family Research
Unresolved issues in stratification theory and measurement are pointed out and implications for family research are discussed. Sources of useful measures are suggested. In addition, the results of a survey of the use of socioeconomic stratification concepts in family research articles published from 1991 through 1993 in six major journals are presented. The results indicate that family researchers make extensive use of various socioeconomic varia…
Growth in Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
A longitudinal follow-up od Smith's (1990) study of associations between academic achievement and self-reported teaching of younger siblings uses the data set on which the previous research was based, plus results of academic achievement tests from two years later for 566 members of Smith's original sample. Instead of the nonlinear associations between teaching younger siblings and reading and language achievement reported in the previous study, …
Adolescent Sexuality
Time use and change in academic achievement: A longitudinal follow-up
Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation
Journal Article Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation Get access Thomas Ewin Smith Thomas Ewin Smith University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Thomas Ewin Smith, Department of Sociology, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 2, December 1992, Pages 46…
Agreement of Adolescent Educational Expectations with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
The idea that teaching younger siblings encourages the intellectual development of the older child is investigated. A self-report measure of teaching younger siblings is developed and tested for effects on academic achievement in reading, language, and mathematics in a multivariate analysis of covariance, using data from a sample of seventhand ninth-grade public school students in a medium-sized southeastern metropolitan area. The analysis contro…
Time and academic achievement
Parental Separation and the Academic Self-Concepts of Adolescents: An Effort to Solve the Puzzle of Separation Effects
Mother-Father Differences in Parental Influence on School Grades and Educational Goals
Using data from a sample of sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their mothers and fathers, this research tests the effects of parental formal education and parental recognition of achievement upon school grades, realistic eduational expectations, and ideal educational aspirations. Substantial differences between mothers and fathers are reported. Maternal education had effects, net of the other variables, on all three of the dependent vari…
Sex Differences in Marriage and Parenthood as Factors Impeding Educational Attainment
Research on individuals who graduated from high school from 1958 through 1972, has indicated that the timing of marriage and first birth had a greater affect on educational attainment among women than among men. It is hypothesized that, among more recent cohorts, these differences may have been reduced or eliminated by social changes in the 1970s and 1980s. A test of this hypothesis was conducted using data gathered from 187 predominantly white, …
Parental Control Techniques: Relative Frequencies and Relationships with Situational Factors
A total of seven different parental control techniques-approaches employed in parental influence attempts-are examined in data based on 197 suburban parents' descriptions of 1,109 parent-adolescent influence encounters. The most prevalent control techniques are 'command' (imperative statements without punishments or overt threats of punishment) and 'self-oriented induction' (suggested consequences for the child of his or her behavior-consequences…
School Grades and Responsibility for Younger Siblings: "An Empirical Study of the "Teaching Function
Hypotheses derived from the confluence model of family effects upon intellectual growth and from related theory and research are tested in data from sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students. Self-reported school grades have a substantial negative relationship with number of older siblings among whites, but not among blacks. The grades of the black respondents have a surprising negative relationship with responsibility for younger siblings…
Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations
Thomas Ewin Smith, Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 901-907
Adolescent Reactions to Attempted Parental Control and Influence Techniques
Surprisingly, previous research has not found that patterns of children's behavior are clearly and consistently related to the overall levels of control attempted by parents or to the element of power in parental influence techniques. As a step toward clarity, some conceptual distinctions relevant to parental behaviors and to offspring reactions are drawn and examined in data from 224 mothers and 180 fathers of sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade st…
The Case for Parental Transmission of Educational Goals: The Importance of Accurate Offspring Perceptions
Hypothesized relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence are tested in data from sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their parents. The findings, like those of most previous studies, do not support relationships between parent-offspring concordance and variables reflecting parental support; but concordance is strongly related to the accuracy…
Education and Work in Rural America: The Social Context of Early Career Decision and Achievement
Adolescent Agreement with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Multiple regression analysis shows that adolescent educational expectations are substantially related to perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring, net of the effects of several relevant variables. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals is 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between parents. Tests of hypotheses in multiple-classification analyses …
Parental Social Power: Race and Sex Differences and Similarities
An Empirical Comparison of Potential Determinants of Parental Authority
Four basic determinants of parental authority are suggested: (a) socialization of the child in acceptance of the superordinate nature of the position of parent; (b) socialstructural specification of the position of offspring; (c) the offspring's perceptions of the parent's ability and worthiness; and (d) availability of alternative relationships for the offspring. Hypotheses are tested using questionnaire data from 3,641 sixth, eighth, tenth, and…
Push Versus Pull: Intra-Family versus Peer-Group Variables as Possible Determinants of Adolescent Orientations To ward Parents
Birth Order, Sibship Size and Social Class as Antecedents of Adolescents' Acceptance of Parents' Authority
Foundations of Parental Influence Upon Adolescents: An Application of Social Power Theory
a tenant inquired of him whether the HHA had an eviction board he answered, It does, you're looking at him. Tenants who are bluffed out do not get the protections of a hearing and do not get a chance to remain in housing by meeting the conditions of an eviction board. Cooptative methods of increasing accountability, like procedural methods, can be undermined when unsympathetic line officers are able to avoid the control structure which supports t…
Foundations of Parental Influence Upon Adolescents: An Application of Social Power Theory
a tenant inquired of him whether the HHA had an eviction board he answered, It does, you're looking at him. Tenants who are bluffed out do not get the protections of a hearing and do not get a chance to remain in housing by meeting the conditions of an eviction board. Cooptative methods of increasing accountability, like procedural methods, can be undermined when unsympathetic line officers are able to avoid the control structure which supports t…
Growth in Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
A longitudinal follow-up od Smith's (1990) study of associations between academic achievement and self-reported teaching of younger siblings uses the data set on which the previous research was based, plus results of academic achievement tests from two years later for 566 members of Smith's original sample. Instead of the nonlinear associations between teaching younger siblings and reading and language achievement reported in the previous study, …
The Case for Parental Transmission of Educational Goals: The Importance of Accurate Offspring Perceptions
Hypothesized relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence are tested in data from sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their parents. The findings, like those of most previous studies, do not support relationships between parent-offspring concordance and variables reflecting parental support; but concordance is strongly related to the accuracy…
Parental Control Techniques: Relative Frequencies and Relationships with Situational Factors
A total of seven different parental control techniques-approaches employed in parental influence attempts-are examined in data based on 197 suburban parents' descriptions of 1,109 parent-adolescent influence encounters. The most prevalent control techniques are 'command' (imperative statements without punishments or overt threats of punishment) and 'self-oriented induction' (suggested consequences for the child of his or her behavior-consequences…
Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
The idea that teaching younger siblings encourages the intellectual development of the older child is investigated. A self-report measure of teaching younger siblings is developed and tested for effects on academic achievement in reading, language, and mathematics in a multivariate analysis of covariance, using data from a sample of seventhand ninth-grade public school students in a medium-sized southeastern metropolitan area. The analysis contro…
Time use and change in academic achievement: A longitudinal follow-up
Agreement of Adolescent Educational Expectations with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Adolescent Agreement with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Multiple regression analysis shows that adolescent educational expectations are substantially related to perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring, net of the effects of several relevant variables. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals is 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between parents. Tests of hypotheses in multiple-classification analyses …
Push Versus Pull: Intra-Family versus Peer-Group Variables as Possible Determinants of Adolescent Orientations To ward Parents
Time and academic achievement
Adolescent Reactions to Attempted Parental Control and Influence Techniques
Surprisingly, previous research has not found that patterns of children's behavior are clearly and consistently related to the overall levels of control attempted by parents or to the element of power in parental influence techniques. As a step toward clarity, some conceptual distinctions relevant to parental behaviors and to offspring reactions are drawn and examined in data from 224 mothers and 180 fathers of sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade st…
Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation
Journal Article Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation Get access Thomas Ewin Smith Thomas Ewin Smith University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Thomas Ewin Smith, Department of Sociology, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 2, December 1992, Pages 46…
Mother-Father Differences in Parental Influence on School Grades and Educational Goals
Using data from a sample of sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their mothers and fathers, this research tests the effects of parental formal education and parental recognition of achievement upon school grades, realistic eduational expectations, and ideal educational aspirations. Substantial differences between mothers and fathers are reported. Maternal education had effects, net of the other variables, on all three of the dependent vari…
An Empirical Comparison of Potential Determinants of Parental Authority
Four basic determinants of parental authority are suggested: (a) socialization of the child in acceptance of the superordinate nature of the position of parent; (b) socialstructural specification of the position of offspring; (c) the offspring's perceptions of the parent's ability and worthiness; and (d) availability of alternative relationships for the offspring. Hypotheses are tested using questionnaire data from 3,641 sixth, eighth, tenth, and…
Parental Separation and the Academic Self-Concepts of Adolescents: An Effort to Solve the Puzzle of Separation Effects
Sex Differences in Marriage and Parenthood as Factors Impeding Educational Attainment
Research on individuals who graduated from high school from 1958 through 1972, has indicated that the timing of marriage and first birth had a greater affect on educational attainment among women than among men. It is hypothesized that, among more recent cohorts, these differences may have been reduced or eliminated by social changes in the 1970s and 1980s. A test of this hypothesis was conducted using data gathered from 187 predominantly white, …
School Grades and Responsibility for Younger Siblings: "An Empirical Study of the "Teaching Function
Hypotheses derived from the confluence model of family effects upon intellectual growth and from related theory and research are tested in data from sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students. Self-reported school grades have a substantial negative relationship with number of older siblings among whites, but not among blacks. The grades of the black respondents have a surprising negative relationship with responsibility for younger siblings…
Socioeconomic Stratification in Family Research
Unresolved issues in stratification theory and measurement are pointed out and implications for family research are discussed. Sources of useful measures are suggested. In addition, the results of a survey of the use of socioeconomic stratification concepts in family research articles published from 1991 through 1993 in six major journals are presented. The results indicate that family researchers make extensive use of various socioeconomic varia…
Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations
Thomas Ewin Smith, Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 901-907
Foundations of Parental Influence Upon Adolescents: An Application of Social Power Theory
a tenant inquired of him whether the HHA had an eviction board he answered, It does, you're looking at him. Tenants who are bluffed out do not get the protections of a hearing and do not get a chance to remain in housing by meeting the conditions of an eviction board. Cooptative methods of increasing accountability, like procedural methods, can be undermined when unsympathetic line officers are able to avoid the control structure which supports t…
Birth Order, Sibship Size and Social Class as Antecedents of Adolescents' Acceptance of Parents' Authority
Push Versus Pull: Intra-Family versus Peer-Group Variables as Possible Determinants of Adolescent Orientations To ward Parents
An Empirical Comparison of Potential Determinants of Parental Authority
Four basic determinants of parental authority are suggested: (a) socialization of the child in acceptance of the superordinate nature of the position of parent; (b) socialstructural specification of the position of offspring; (c) the offspring's perceptions of the parent's ability and worthiness; and (d) availability of alternative relationships for the offspring. Hypotheses are tested using questionnaire data from 3,641 sixth, eighth, tenth, and…
Parental Social Power: Race and Sex Differences and Similarities
Education and Work in Rural America: The Social Context of Early Career Decision and Achievement
Adolescent Agreement with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Multiple regression analysis shows that adolescent educational expectations are substantially related to perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring, net of the effects of several relevant variables. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals is 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between parents. Tests of hypotheses in multiple-classification analyses …
The Case for Parental Transmission of Educational Goals: The Importance of Accurate Offspring Perceptions
Hypothesized relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence are tested in data from sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their parents. The findings, like those of most previous studies, do not support relationships between parent-offspring concordance and variables reflecting parental support; but concordance is strongly related to the accuracy…
Adolescent Reactions to Attempted Parental Control and Influence Techniques
Surprisingly, previous research has not found that patterns of children's behavior are clearly and consistently related to the overall levels of control attempted by parents or to the element of power in parental influence techniques. As a step toward clarity, some conceptual distinctions relevant to parental behaviors and to offspring reactions are drawn and examined in data from 224 mothers and 180 fathers of sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade st…
School Grades and Responsibility for Younger Siblings: "An Empirical Study of the "Teaching Function
Hypotheses derived from the confluence model of family effects upon intellectual growth and from related theory and research are tested in data from sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students. Self-reported school grades have a substantial negative relationship with number of older siblings among whites, but not among blacks. The grades of the black respondents have a surprising negative relationship with responsibility for younger siblings…
Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations
Thomas Ewin Smith, Sex and Sibling Structure: Interaction Effects upon the Accuracy of Adolescent Perceptions of Parental Orientations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 901-907
Parental Control Techniques: Relative Frequencies and Relationships with Situational Factors
A total of seven different parental control techniques-approaches employed in parental influence attempts-are examined in data based on 197 suburban parents' descriptions of 1,109 parent-adolescent influence encounters. The most prevalent control techniques are 'command' (imperative statements without punishments or overt threats of punishment) and 'self-oriented induction' (suggested consequences for the child of his or her behavior-consequences…
Mother-Father Differences in Parental Influence on School Grades and Educational Goals
Using data from a sample of sixth, eighth, and tenth grade students and their mothers and fathers, this research tests the effects of parental formal education and parental recognition of achievement upon school grades, realistic eduational expectations, and ideal educational aspirations. Substantial differences between mothers and fathers are reported. Maternal education had effects, net of the other variables, on all three of the dependent vari…
Sex Differences in Marriage and Parenthood as Factors Impeding Educational Attainment
Research on individuals who graduated from high school from 1958 through 1972, has indicated that the timing of marriage and first birth had a greater affect on educational attainment among women than among men. It is hypothesized that, among more recent cohorts, these differences may have been reduced or eliminated by social changes in the 1970s and 1980s. A test of this hypothesis was conducted using data gathered from 187 predominantly white, …
Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
The idea that teaching younger siblings encourages the intellectual development of the older child is investigated. A self-report measure of teaching younger siblings is developed and tested for effects on academic achievement in reading, language, and mathematics in a multivariate analysis of covariance, using data from a sample of seventhand ninth-grade public school students in a medium-sized southeastern metropolitan area. The analysis contro…
Time and academic achievement
Parental Separation and the Academic Self-Concepts of Adolescents: An Effort to Solve the Puzzle of Separation Effects
Agreement of Adolescent Educational Expectations with Perceived Maternal and Paternal Educational Goals
Time use and change in academic achievement: A longitudinal follow-up
Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation
Journal Article Gender Differences in the Scientific Achievement of Adolescents: Effects of Age and Parental Separation Get access Thomas Ewin Smith Thomas Ewin Smith University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Thomas Ewin Smith, Department of Sociology, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 2, December 1992, Pages 46…
Growth in Academic Achievement and Teaching Younger Siblings
A longitudinal follow-up od Smith's (1990) study of associations between academic achievement and self-reported teaching of younger siblings uses the data set on which the previous research was based, plus results of academic achievement tests from two years later for 566 members of Smith's original sample. Instead of the nonlinear associations between teaching younger siblings and reading and language achievement reported in the previous study, …
Adolescent Sexuality
What a Difference a Measure Makes: Parental-Separation Effect on School Grades, not Academic Achievement
On the basis of empirical evidence that non-ability factors are more important determinants of school grades than of academic achievement test results, it is assumed that a student's social environment will affect grades more than scores on achievement tests. That assumption is a part of the basis for the hypothesis that parental separation will have a stronger negative effect on school grades than on academic achievement scores. The hypothesis i…
Socioeconomic Stratification in Family Research
Unresolved issues in stratification theory and measurement are pointed out and implications for family research are discussed. Sources of useful measures are suggested. In addition, the results of a survey of the use of socioeconomic stratification concepts in family research articles published from 1991 through 1993 in six major journals are presented. The results indicate that family researchers make extensive use of various socioeconomic varia…
Differences Between Black and White Students in the Effect of Parental Separation on School Grades
Effects of parental separation on self-reported school grades are examined in a sample of 1,709 seventh and ninth grade public school students, 44.5 percent of whom are black. A significant statistical interaction between parental separation and race reveals a marked black/white difference in the effect of the timing of separation on grades. Only separation after the second grade has a significant negative effect on the white students, while only…
Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (11 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Academic achievement (6 works)