Advances in Psychology Research: v. 84: Volume 84

This continuing series presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. This book reviews research on the analysis of father's, mother's and adolescent's perceptions of family life; case-based reasoning; metaphorical sentence processing and topic abstractness; correlates of antenatal depression symptomatology among Chinese women; new model for bilingual minds in sociolinguistic variation situations and a method for developing a scale to evaluate maternal psychological status with regard to children's oral care.