Citation

Cavan RS. Am. J. Sociol. 1934; 40(2): 143-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1934, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/216680

PMID

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Abstract

Two scales have been constructed to measure the home background and the social relationships of adolescents in terms of their tendency to produce well-adjusted personalities. The device for classifying children as to emotional and social adjustment was a brief personality test of the neurotic inventory type. A schedule was developed containing questions on the home and on social relationships which differentiated the well-adjusted from the maladjusted children. Values were assigned to the various possible answers to the questions and the sum of these values gave two scores for each child, one indicating the type of home background, the other the type of social relationships. The reliability and validity of the scales have been established by approved methods.