Premium
PERSONALITY RATINGS OF ADOLESCENTS: A STUDY IN A COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
Author(s) -
HALLWORTH H. J.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1964.tb00621.x
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , psychology , personality , developmental psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , social psychology , psychometrics , linguistics , philosophy , cronbach's alpha
S ummary . Ten housemasters in a comprehensive school rated all 14‐year‐old boys and girls within their houses on fourteen personality traits. Measures were also obtained, for the same pupils, of verbal and non‐verbal intelligence, English and Arithmetic attainment, family size and ordinal position in family. A correlation matrix of all variables was computed for each sex within each house. The ten matrices for each sex were combined, a principal components analysis was obtained for each of the two combined matrices, and the axes were rotated to the Varimax and Quartimax criteria. Six factors were obtained and their interpretation is discussed.