Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1997. / Primarily in English; some parts in Dutch. Summaries in Dutch and English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297).

This study has the purpose to compare the relationships between personality, environment, achievement, and intelligence and discover the effect, if any, of environment upon the personality, achievement, and intelligence of a group of fifth grade pupils.

The major purpose of the study is to reveal, by means of comparison, the extent to which the Town Group of pupils and the School Bus Group of pupils of the elementary grades (fourth to seventh inclusive) of the Decatur, Texas, Public School are adjusting to the problems and conditions which confront them in the Decatur school and community, and the extent to which they are developing a normal, happy, and socially effective personality.

The problem chosen for investigation was to attempt to determine the relationship of children's attitude toward some social problems and their personality adjustment.

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between chronological age and reading achievement and between chronological age and personality development in school children.

To detect possible adjustment problems and in attempting to identify the areas of maladjustment from which a child may be suffering, the writer administered the California Test of Personality; a test of personality measurement and observation taken from a subjective frame of reference.

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The primary research questions dealt with whether parents consider different personality characteristics of importance for boys and girls. Data were collected by conducting a telephone survey of a random sample of parents in the city of Denton with children under the age of eighteen living in the household. Respondents were asked whether they considered the personality characteristics of responsibility, strict obedience, being respectful of the opinions of others, showing good manners, being independent, and having loyalty to a religion not important, somewhat important, or very important for boys and girls. Of the respondents fifty-nine were fathers and one hundred and twenty-one were mothers. The analysis of the data revealed that mothers and fathers have similar attitudes concerning the importance of these personality characteristics.

Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology emphasizes the uniqueness of individuals and describes the life style, or personality, as the unique and characteristic pattern of coping with and solving problems and interacting with other people. The purpose of this study was the development of a similar instrument that would quantitatively identify life styles in children.

"For several years the seemingly inevitable difficulties experienced by seventh grade youngsters in making personality adjustments when coming from the elementary school to the junior high school has been a personal challenge. Having been rather closely associated during their sixth year with approximately half of the seventh grade pupils studied, the writer is particularly interested in the personality adjustments evidenced by the groups considered in this paper. The problem was to discover both the personality adjustments of the seventh graders who came from an adjacent elementary school which provided a special program for all sixth graders, and the personality adjustments of the seventh graders who did not attend that particular elementary school"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1954." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Virgil E. Strickland, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references.