Interrelationships Among Psychological Measures of Cognitive Style and Fantasy Predisposition in a Sample of 100 Children in the Fifth and Sixth Grades

Abstract

For a sample of 100 fifth and sixth grade pupils of middle-class background (51 girls and 49 boys), intercorrelations among measures of three cognitive style constructs of reflection-impulsivity, field dependence-independence, and internal-external locus of control and three measures of fantasy predisposition were for the most part low and statistically not significant. Exceptions were noted in the instance of the sample of girls for whom coefficients of .36, .38, and .51 between the measure of locus of control and each of three measures of fantasy predisposition were statistically reliable beyond the .01 level. The hypothesis of a positive relationship between a measurable construct of fantasy predisposition and each of three measurable constructs of cognitive style received only limited support. Furthermore, it did not appear that fantasy was a part of a larger or more general construct of cognitive style or that a universal construct of cognitive style existed.

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