“…The findings for the warm-permissive condition are consistent with the recommendations of childrearing specialists concerned with maximizing socially out-going characteristics and individuality. The child with warm-permissive parents is socialized mainly through love, good models, reasons, and a trial-and-error learning of how his actions (which are a bit uncontrolled at time) have an impact on others [p. 1981. In reference to the teacher-child relation, the American Council on Education sponsored a major study in which three main factors were found to represent observed teacher behavior: (a) understanding, friendly versus aloof, egocentric, restricted teacher behavior; (b) responsible, businesslike, systematic versus evading, unplanned, slipshod teacher behavior; and (c) stimulating, imaginative, enthusiastic versus dull, routine teacher behavior (Ryans, 1960). These factors of teacher behavior would appear to correspond closely to the sector of social behavior defined by the positive and active coping poles in Quadrant IV of Figure 1.…”