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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL
Author(s) -
MITCHELL SHEILA,
SHEPHERD MICHAEL
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.tb01876.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , sample (material) , population , demography , sociology , chemistry , chromatography
S ummary . An enquiry carried out among a random sample of children attending local authority schools in Buckinghamshire made it possible to compare information provided by the parents and teachers of over 6,000 children. This revealed that deviant behaviour at home was significantly associated with lack of academic success and also with the manifestation of behavioural disorders in school. There were, however, many children who exhibited disorders of behaviour either only at school or only at home. This suggests that any comprehensive attempt to estimate the distribution of maladjustment in the child population must utilize the information of both teachers and parents.