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Download full textSkipper, Charles E. – 1974
This study examines the impact of a high ability suburban school district on the personal development of adolescents with average mental ability who had always lived in the community and attended its schools. Two groups were identified to determine the influence of academic and intellectual competition on personal development. An "average…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescent Development, High School Students, Personality Development
Hurtig, Anita Landau; Petersen, Anne C. – 1982
It has been predicted that, if an androgynous identity represents a higher level of psychosocial functioning, there should be a significant relationship between androgynous sex role identity and high self-esteem. To test this hypothesis, 139 male and female high school seniors completed the Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development, the Bem Sex…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Androgyny, High School Seniors, High Schools
Martin-Reynolds, JoAnne; And Others – 1991
As part of an ongoing research project, this study examined the relationship between character traits and school variables, home variables, and personal variables. Freshman and sophomore students from a small rural high school in Ohio were selected for the study based on their scores on the Character Trait Questionnaire (CTQ). The CTQ contains 12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Characteristics, High Risk Students, High Schools
Flynn, Timothy M. – 1975
To determine the personality characteristics that may be related to school readiness, particularly with reference to migrant preschool children, the following characteristics were examined: (1) delay of gratification, (2) relationship with achievement model, (3) dependency, (4) motor inhibition, (5) self control, (6) self concept, and (7) risk…
Descriptors: Achievement, Black Youth, Compensatory Education, Delay of Gratification
Hu, Nan Brian – 1996
This study examined some factors influencing college students' choice of field of study. A model of student choice of major focused on students' perceptions of labor market conditions, personality development, college campus experience of academic and social integration, and use of information available on campus was established. The issues…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Career Choice, College Students
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1978
This study focuses on the effects of family size and spacing on intellectual, social, and personality development of children. The sample consisted of 533 suburban, middle class, large family (five or more) and small two child family children. The children, 233 boys and 300 girls, were teenagers attending either junior or senior high school.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order
