Edward T. Clark

Children, people's troubles, and the image of psychologists

Job titles given by two widely disparate samples, consisting of 100 male undergraduates and 304 (165 boys and 139 girls) culturally disadvantaged children in Grades 3 through 6, to the male figure of Plate M6 (personnel or social worker) of the Vocational Apperception Test indicates that, as compared with that of marriage counsellors or psychiatrists, the image of psychologists is negligible in both groups.

Manifest Needs among Rotc and Non-Rotc Undergraduates

Manifest needs of ROTC and non-ROTC undergraduates were studied utilizing the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS). It was hypothesized that the ROTC undergraduates would be higher than non-ROTC undergraduates on Order and lower on Autonomy and Aggression. The EPPS was administered to 20 ROTC undergraduates and to a randomly selected sample of 20 male undergraduates at St. Johns University in New York City. None of the hypothesized differences in manifest needs were found, but the ROTC undergraduates were significantly lower on Intraception and significantly higher on Heterosexuality than the non-ROTC undergraduates.

Status level of occupations chosen and rejected by middle and lower class boys and girls.

The hypothesis that childrens occupational choices are superior in status to the occupations they reject was supported by the occupational choices and rejections of 60 middle class boys and 49 girls and 108 lower class boys, but not by those of the 107 lower class girls.