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Iatrogenic, prosthetic, and other perspectives are used to derive hypotheses concerning the roles of perceived health and residence satisfaction in mediating the effects of nursing home institutionalization on subjective well‐being. The findings show that perceived health and residence satisfaction are important intervening variables. Institutionalization has a positive effect on well‐being, mediated by perceived health, but institutionalization has a stronger negative effect on well‐being, mediated by residence satisfaction. Thus, institutionalization's total effect on well‐being is negative. Theoretical and policy implications of these findings are discussed.

The present study tests competing hypotheses of how parental values affect the use of child-rearing techniques. The results indicate that a value on conformity is positively associated, not only with corporal punishment (as previously demonstrated), but also with the use of lecturing and overall control. Similarly, a value on self-reliance is negatively associated with the use of those three techniques.

Current sociological theory regarding the antecedents of conjugal power suggests that resource theory can be successfully employed in the prediction and explanation of marital power distributions only in "transitional equalitarian" cultural systems. Anthropologists, however, have employed variations of resource theory in cultures which are clearly patriarchal, and have observed patterns of power distributions which conform to resource theory. In this study, a hypothesis derived from resource theory is tested on ethnographic data from a sample of 113 patriarchal cultures. The hypothesis is supported. Implications of this finding for the further development of explanatory theory with regard to conjugal power are explored.