The present study investigated the wishes of black American children aged 7 to 12 yr. (63 boys, 74 girls), to obtain normative data and to compare these children with other cultural groups. Ss wished for material things more often than anything else, boys tended to wish for money and material things more strongly than girls, and girls were more interested in personal attributes and skills than boys. No developmental trends were noted. Findings were compared with those of studies dealing with white American and Greek and Greek-American children, emphasizing psychosocial change in human development.
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