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Attitudes of life in children and young adolescents
Author(s) -
MOORE TERENCE,
CLAUTOUR S. E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1977.tb00250.x
Subject(s) - psychology , girl , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , consistency (knowledge bases) , national child development study , socioeconomic status , demography , population , statistics , geometry , mathematics , sociology
.— As part of a longitudinal study in London, 68 boys and 48 girls were asked, at ages 7, 12 and 15, their views on the advantages and disadvantages of various times of life, of being a boy or a girl and a man or a woman, of marrying and having children. This paper reports on the distribution of attitudes in each sex at the three ages; discusses the reasons given; relates the attitudes to social class, intelligence, and physical maturation in each sex; looks at longitudinal consistency in relation to age of puberty and other variables; and considers the developmental and social implications of these children's views of life.