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This study is an attempt to compare certain attitudes expressed by a group of institutionalized girls with those expressed by a group of high-school girls, where both groups are approximately equated with respect to such factors as age, intelligence, and educational status.Three of the Thurstone, et cd., scales for the measurement of social attitudes (Form A) were used: Attitude toward Sunday observance (Wang); Attitude toward the Bible (Chave); and Attitude toward war (Peterson). A favorable attitude on each of these scales is indicated by a high score.The scales were administered to eighty-three girls in the Indiana Girls' School and to one hundred two girls in the Greencastle, Indiana, High School. All subjects in both institutions were in the eighth, ninth, or tenth grades. In order to secure pertinent information about them, a personal data sheet, consisting of fifteen items, was used. The clinical files of the Indiana Girls' School contained Stanford-Binet IQ's and a record of the court charge under which each delinquent had been committed. Terman Group Test of Mental Ability scores were available for all the high-school pupils, and Stanford-Binet IQ's were secured for all but a few.The non-delinquent girls were found to have a mean IQ between four and five points higher than the delinquent girls; both means fall well within the range which would be classified as normal. The chronological age range is from fourteen to nineteen years, although more than fifty per cent of each group are sixteen or seventeen years of age. Less than fifteen per cent of both groups are in the tenth

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