AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

This study attempts to derive, describe, and compare some aspects of the cognised and the ideal self-pictures of some children in their last year of primary end first year of secondary school. Three measures - a Check List, Rogers' Test of Personality Adjustment, and the Michigan Picture Story Test - considered to differ clearly In the degree of their directness of approach, were used to obtain data about their self-pictures from 34 boys and 36 girls fulfilling certain criteria of selection. The data are analysed in relation to variables such as sex and educational level. The findings are discussed in relation primarily to personal adequacy, social attitudes and adequacy,, and interpersonal relationships. Differences in problem areas, attitudes to authority and peers, and between the pictures of the ideal self, the cognised self and the "projected" self were found associated with variables such as sex, intelligence, school and educational level. The findings of this study are juxtaposed with those of similar or relevant studies.