Emotionality test scores of delinquent and nondelinquent girls

Bibliographic Data

ID3933714
AuthorsPaul L Boynton, Barrier M Walsworth
Year1943
Volume38
Issue1
Pages87-92
Publication date1943-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Abnormal & Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0096-851X
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/h0053302
OpenAlexW2049657963
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This study does not seek to generalize with respect to the possible differences between delinquent and nondelinquent girls, or even between a particular group of delinquent and nondelinquent girls. Its primary purpose is the analysis of the results of a series of tests of emotionality, or personality, when they are applied to two groups of girls who are manifestly different, on the average, in their personality adjustments. One of these groups was composed of 47 girls, aged 16 and 17, who were in the Tennessee Vocational School for Girls, ordinarily called the State Reform School, to which girls are committed by court as a result of one or more delinquencies of some type. This was the entire population with the designated ages. The other group was composed of 50 girls in West End High School, in Nashville, a public high school which is located in a somewhat favored portion of the city, both from an economic and social point of view. These girls were selected at random from the 16- and l7-year-old girls in the latter school. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Developmental psychology · Emotionality · Juvenile delinquency · Test (biology) · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Psychology