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The relationship between parental social value priorities and the family communication environment is examined in three recent surveys: two in West Germany and one in the United States. Value priorities were shown to be systematically related to interpersonal communication about politics, public affairs media use, attitudes about family communication and parenthood, and norms of family communication. The evidence supports a socialization model in which parental social value priorities influence concept-oriented family communication patterns, which, in turn, have a normative impact on the political communication environment in the home.

A new mathematical model is presented that can predict time trends of public opinion (PO) mass media based on information. Using this model, called ideodynamics, & a new method of computer content analysis applied to Associated Press stories retrieved from the Nexis electronic database, actual PO poll results were forecast for the US presidential election of 1988 with high accuracy. The average deviation between the computer-predicted values & 120+ measured poll values was 2.7% for George Bush vs Michael Dukakis. On election day, the deviation was 2%. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 15 References. Adapted from the source document.

Analysis of a three-wave panel study of parent-child pairs examined indicator reliability, longitudinal stability, and parent-child similarity of family communication patterns. Estimates of reliability and intergenerational similarity were obtained using a multiple indicator model (LISREL) that treats individual measures as indicators of an underlying latent construct. Analyses were performed for single items measured at three time points and for multiple items at single time points, both revealing considerable measurement error. With unreliability taken into account, there was substantial dissimilarity in the perceptions of parents and children within the same family. A reconceptualization of research on family communication patterns focusing on the antecedents of family norms and the dynamic character of family interaction was discussed.