A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE SYMLOG® TRAIT RATING FORM

The purposes of this study were to assess whether knowledge of a child's family's marital status (divorced home/intact home/family status unknown) and/or teachers' marital status (single/divorced) would affect teachers' ratings of that child's personality traits and predicted behaviors. The study also sought to determine whether raters' marital status and knowledge of family background interacted with these teachers' ratings. The subjects were 27 married and 27 divorced teachers of preschool through Grade five. To test the hypotheses, two instruments were employed. The Personality Trait Rating Scale and the Predicted Behavior in School Scale were used by the teachers to rate behaviors of a 5-yr.-old child observed on a videotape. Knowledge of the child's family's marital status had no significant effect on teachers' ratings on either test. Teachers' own marital status had no significant effect on ratings, and no interaction was noted. Contrary to some earlier research, teachers were not biased in their ratings by knowledge of a child's family's marital status. Similarly, married teachers who had not experienced the divorce process themselves were no more positively or negatively biased in their ratings than were the divorced teachers.

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Twin Resemblances in Creativity and in Esthetic and Emotional Expression

Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae ◽

10.1017/s0001566000014148 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 213-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Frank Barron ◽

Paolo Parisi

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Young Adult ◽

Emotional Expression ◽

Halo Effect ◽

Objective Test ◽

Male And Female ◽

Trait Rating ◽

Standard List

Three sources of observation relevant to the measurement of individual differences in emotional and esthetic expressiveness were employed to study their heritability by application to a sample of some 60 pairs of young adult like-sexed twins, approximately evenly divided between male and female and MZ and DZ pairs. The sources of observation were objective test performances, trait ascription using a standard list of adjectives, and videotaped enactments of mood and esthetic performances. Perceptual and esthetic abilities do appear to have substantial heritability, although esthetic preferences do not. Heritability is also indicated for such adjectives as artistic, inventive, original, and independent. Ratings of the videotape performances yielded somewhat ambiguous results, due to the presence of a marked halo effect; the most likely interpretation congruent with earlier results is that greater MZ twin resemblances in social extroversion generated greater resemblances in the videotape situation on such other trait-rating variables as creativity, naturalness, and dominance.

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SELF-ESTEEM AND SHARING IN FOURTH-GRADE CHILDREN

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1981.9.2.211 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 211-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Shirley M. Miller ◽

Harvey J. Ginsburg ◽

Sharon G. Rogow

Keyword(s):

Fourth Grade ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Behavior Rating ◽

Rating Form

Sixty-four fourth-grade children were given 20 tokens for drawing a picture. They then had the option of donating any or all of the tokens to either “needy children” or for “a class prize.” Any remaining tokens could be exchanged for various prizes. The teacher of each child completed the Coo per-smith Behavior Rating Form measure of self-esteem. Sharing with needy children was positively' correlated with self-esteem while the children's retaining tokens for themselves was negatively correlated with self-esteem. Thus, generosity may be related to self-esteem in situations where an individual does not directly profit from the situation.

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