A Comparison of the Movie and Non-Movie Goers of the Elementary School

Abstract

The children considered in this study included all the pupils in the Farmingdale, New York, Elementary and Junior High School except those in the first grade and those whose records were incomplete. (Grades seven and eight were included in the junior high school.) Six hundred of the six hundred and thirty-five children enrolled were used in the study. It was necessary in selecting the tests to choose those that had com parable forms for the primary, intermediate, and junior high school grades, as well as those tests that were highly reliable. To obtain a mental age level, the primary and intermediate forms of the California Short-Form Test of Mental Maturity were administered. The California Test of Personality was used to arrive at a numerical evaluation of personality. The primary and intermediate levels of the Stanford Achievement Test measured school