Personality and Social Class among Eleven‐year‐old Children |
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| Authors: | Paul R Pearson David W Lankshear Leslie J Francis |
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| Institution: | 1. Principal Clinical Psychologist , West Suffolk Hospital , Hardwick Lane, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 2QZ, United Kingdom;2. Director of Education , Diocesan House, Raymond Street, Chester CHI 4PN, United Kingdom;3. Mansel Jones Fellow , Trinity College , Carmarthen, Dyfed SA31 3EP, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The JEPQ‐S, short form of the JEPQ, was completed by 326 fourth‐year junior pupils from schools in predominantly working class and predominantly middle class areas, together with information about their fathers’ occupations. The lack of any significant correlations between the social class of fathers’ occupations and extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism and the lie scale is discussed against the discrepant findings regarding the relationship between personality and social class among adults from the MPI to the EPQ‐R, the Eysenckian theory relating crime and personality and the relationship between deviant social behaviour and social class. On the other hand, pupils from the predominantly working class areas recorded significantly higher scores on the pychoticism scale than pupils from the predominantly middle class areas. |
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