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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VALUE JUDGMENTS OF ADOLESCENTS
Author(s) -
HALLWORTH H. J.,
WAITE G.
Publication year - 1966
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.2044-8279.1966.tb01870.x
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , psychology , developmental psychology , meaning (existential) , factorial analysis , variance (accounting) , factor (programming language) , psychometrics , statistics , mathematics , cronbach's alpha , accounting , computer science , business , psychotherapist , programming language
S ummary . 155 boys and 128 girls in the fourth year of secondary school judged each of thirty‐six concepts on scales taken from Osgood's three dimensions. Preliminary analysis confirmed the factorial composition of the scales. For each subject one evaluative score was obtained on every concept and the scores were intercorrelated and factor analysed for boys and girls separately. Five principal components were extracted in each case, accounting for 57 per cent. of the variance. The axes were rotated successively to the Varimax and Promax criteria. The two sets of Promax factors are discussed in relation to the attitudes of adolescent boys and girls to success and ambition, school and authority, security, the opposite sex, parents and self. For each sex group two second‐order factors were obtained from the correlations between Promax factors. In each case, the larger was a general factor. For boys, the remaining second‐order factor was related to school and authority; for girls, it was a factor of reward, money and youth. The investigation demonstrates a procedure for determining the affective meaning of concepts important in the lives of adolesccent boys and girls.