Personality and Social Class among Eleven-year-old Children
Titel:
Personality and Social Class among Eleven-year-old Children
Auteur:
Pearson, Paul R. Lankshear, David W. Francis, Leslie J.
Verschenen in:
Educational studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 15 (1989) nr. 2 pagina's 107-113
Jaar:
1989
Inhoud:
The JEPQ-S, short form of the JEPQ, was completed by 326 fourth-year junior pupils from schools in predominantly working class and predominantly middle class areas, together with information about their fathers' occupations. The lack of any significant correlations between the social class of fathers' occupations and extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism and the lie scale is discussed against the discrepant findings regarding the relationship between personality and social class among adults from the MPI to the EPQ-R, the Eysenckian theory relating crime and personality and the relationship between deviant social behaviour and social class. On the other hand, pupils from the predominantly working class areas recorded significantly higher scores on the pychoticism scale than pupils from the predominantly middle class areas.