Abstract
To study school-related attitudes of disturbed children, a semantic differential form was administered in a special treatment center to 68 children ranging in age from 10 to 16 yr. Four people concepts (classmates, parent, teacher, myself) and four curriculum concepts (social studies, language, science, mathematics) were rated by each S on, respectively, 9 and 8 scales. Adult ratings (patent, teacher) were higher than children ratings (classmates, myself) on the factors of Movement and Security, but on Merit teacher was viewed as the least favorable of the four people concepts. On the Vigor factor for curricular concepts, these children viewed science as most vigorous with arithmetic in second place, and language and social studies falling in less favorable positions. The relatively high scores in the Certainty factor indicate these children perceive the various curricular areas as safe, easy, usual and familiar. Comparisons were made with ratings by normal children from an earlier study by two of the authors.
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