An investigation of the incidence and some of the correlates of social maladjustment among a sample of Jamaican schoolchildren
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1981
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This study sought to identify, from a number of personality, environmental, and cognitive variables, the ones that would be the most important correlates of social maladjustment, measured multi-dimensionally by Stott's Bristol Adjustment Guides (BSAG). Data were collected from 375 Grade 9 students in urban all-age schools in Jamaica. Each dimension of the BSAG was analysed by two multivariate methods for the total sample as well as male and female sub-groups. The findings that were consistent across methods for each of these groups were considered to be the salient ones. Only a few of the environmental variables and one personality variable had sufficient impact to enable them to emerge as having a relationship with social maladjustment. The most sensitive environmental indicators were those variables characteristic of the teacher, with the two dominant teacher characteristics being "Teacher Educational Background" for the boys and "Length of Teaching Experience" for the girls