Methods for the study of personality in young children /
"This monograph on Methods for the Study of Personality in Young Children presents the fruits of four years' exploration and experimentation by a group at Sarah Lawrence College who have been concerned with this problem of studying the personality make-up and development of young children....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Society for Research in Child Development, National Research Council,
1941.
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| Series: | Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ;
v. 6, no. 4. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This monograph on Methods for the Study of Personality in Young Children presents the fruits of four years' exploration and experimentation by a group at Sarah Lawrence College who have been concerned with this problem of studying the personality make-up and development of young children. The various methods described range from the careful, but non-schematic, observations of the child within the nursery school setting, to the very systematic and carefully administered series of experimental situations specifically designed to provoke whatever affective or emotional reactions the child may be carrying, often rather effectively repressed or inhibited. This monograph therefore merits the interest and attention of students of child development and especially those concerned with the study of personality development; it also offers many fruitful leads to those who are concerned with programs in education and early childhood and the larger task of promoting mental health. In so far as the clinical study of adult personality disorders and of the very frequent psychosomatic illnesses points back inevitably to the childhood experiences of the patient when his characteristic patterns of acting and feeling were established, it seems probable that these methods will increasingly throw light on the early beginnings of personality and psychosomatic disorders and by so much will advance our knowledge of these processes and give clues to possible methods of prevention"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Title from front matter (JSTOR, viewed Sept. 16, 2005). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISSN: | 0037-976X ; |