Attitudes and Environments: Personality Group Differences

Abstract

Discriminant analysis was used to examine personality group differences in children's school-related attitudes and in their perceptions of school learning environments. Personality was assessed by administering The Children's Personality Questionnaire, Form A while scales were constructed to measure children's school-related attitudes and perceptions of their school learning environments. Data were collected from 500 12-yr.-old Australian children. In the analysis the children were classified into four personality groups that were labeled as extravert-adjusted, extravert-anxious, introvert-adjusted and introvert-anxious. The findings supported the general proposition that children of different personality groups construct variable social environments and have different attitudinal dispositions.