CHILD PERSONALITY STRUCTURE AS REVEALED IN TEACHERS' BEHAVIOR RATINGS.

CLINICAL psychology; SCHOOL children; TEACHERS; PERSONALITY; BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION

This article focuses on child personality structure as revealed in teachers behavior ratings. The subjects consisted of 198 children drawn from four first-grade and four second-grade classes in a midwestern urban community. In age, the children extended from six years and three months to ten years, with a mean age of seven years, four months. Each of the eight teacher raters rated the children in her class. Every teacher was given a list identifying each of 38 traits with respect to its high end and its low end. She was also given an instruction sheet and a rating form. On this form, her pupils were listed in a column at the left, and succeeding columns were headed by trait numbers.