Behavioral classification project.

Just How Far Can Social Change Change Personality?

“…In other words, the storms of the present day have not inundated the pubertal youngster in his personality crisis period. Similar findings were obtained by the Behavioral Classification Project (26,28,32). The writer and associates discovered that among the many factors of child behavior, principally behavior problems, which they found among hundreds of clinical and normal children, only one, which was a specifically maturity-immaturity factor, was age-related among children 6 through 13 years of age.…”

The Development of a Behavior Checklist for Boys

“…Parents would seem to be the most informed judges, but low parental agreement has frequently been reported (Dreger, Lewis, Rich, Miller, Reid, Overlade, Taffel, & Flemming, 1964;Sarason, Davidson, Lighthall, Waite, & Ruebush, 1960), suggesting that they are unable to provide objective information concerning the maladaptive behavior of their own children. Several recent attempts to classify or evaluate child behavior have relied on judgments by adults.…”

A Brief Parent Rating Scale for Assessing Young Children's Adjustment

“…Achenbach and Edelbrock's (1978) review, for example, points out that parent ratings have been used much more in studies of convergent validity and the assessment of treatment gains with clinical groups than as primary data sources in evaluating normal children. That review cites a number of studies in which parent ratings were factor analyzed to yield clinical syndromes (Achenbach, 1978;Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1979;Conners, 1970;Dreger et al, 1964;and Ferguson, Partyka & Eester, 1974). Later, the same authors reported cluster analyses of parent ratings designed to develop representative profiles for clinic and referred children (Edelbrock $r Achenbach, 1980).…”

“…One early example of this approach is Dreger et al's (1964) study, which used parent reports of the behavior of matched clinic and normal children, ages 6-13, to derive 8 problem factors (e.g., paranoid-aggressive, antisocial aggressive, scholastic retardation). Later studies based on similar methodologies, age groups, and populations identified somewhat different factor solutions (Achenbach have used such empirically derived factors to compare clinic or referred children to normals.…”