The attitudes of various groups toward behavior problems of children.

Abstract

There is a wide disparity between the rankings of the behavior problems by the child psychologists and all other groups, namely Negro and white children, parents, apprentice teachers, and teachers. Rankings by teachers more nearly agree with rankings by parents than with rankings by child psychologists. Child psychologists tend to evaluate behaviors in terms of their effect upon individual personality, teachers and parents in terms of their social consequences. The rankings by children are almost the same as by parents. Rankings by Negro and white parents, children, and teachers reveal no racial difference. Prospective teachers and teachers in attendance at colleges rank the behaviors more nearly as they are ranked by parents than do teachers in service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)