The Recent Increase of Persons in the Social Security Ages

ships between problem child and parents is itself a cause or a product of behavior improvement is, however, unclear. Twice as many instances occurred in the experimental as in the control group and contributed largely to the percentage difference. We may therefore summarize the analysis of the environmental influences upon the two groups as indicating very marked similarities in extent of social pathology and defective social relationships in family life, no significant differences in trend for these characteristics during the treatment period, and no important differences in the social treatment given outside the home, the controls receiving more disciplinary attention than the experimental. These facts lead to the conclusion that no measureable influences in the social environments of the two groups account for the marked improvement of the majority of the experimental group and the continued and slightly deteriorating misconduct of the majority of the control group of intensively studied cases. Conclusions: This experiment requires duplication on larger numbers before conclusive judgments can be formed as to the efficacy of the controlled activity group as a vehicle of sociological treatment for social deviates. The positive results, quantitative and qualitative, on this small sampling indicate that a short period of exposure to nonsegregate social relationships in the setting of a controlled activity group tends to reverse the direction of delinquent behavior and to release tensions through providing a free atmosphere for the working off of aggressions and the formation of social ties. The experiment further casts positive light upon the practicality of achieving transfer of adjustive reactions from an experimental situation to other life situations, such as the family and school class-room

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