Date of Award:

5-1968

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Psychology

Committee Chair(s)

E. Wayne Wright

Committee

E. Wayne Wright

Committee

Norman Bell

Abstract

Three general comparisons were made in the present study: (1) Four groups of subjects were compared with one-another on the four Bills' Index of Adjustment and Values variables. The variables included: (a) Self-concept (perception of self), (b) self-acceptance (feelings about perception of self), (c) ideal-self (aspired self), and (d) the discrepancy score between self-concept and ideal-self. The four main groups consisted of: (a) Nonincarcerated nondelinquents (adolescents, in public school, without a police record), (b) nonincarcerated delinquents (with police record), (c) incarcerated adolescents attending the institutional academic school, (d) incarcerated adolescents not attending the institutional academic school. (2) The two incarcerated main group subjects were divided into minority and majority groups, according to nationality, and then compared on the same four I.A.V. variables as the main groups. (3) The four main groups were also divided into age groups and. compared on the same four I.A.V. variables. This comparison was made to test for the effect of age upon self-concept attitudes.

Based on the results the following conclusions were reported:

1. Public school nondelinquents have less of a discrepancy between self-concept and ideal-self than public school delinquents.

2. Public school nondelinquents have significantly higher self-concepts, self-acceptance, and ideal-self's than incarcerated not-in-school adolescents.

3. The public school nondelinquent group subjects had significantly higher self-concepts, self-acceptance, and congruence between self-concept and ideal-self than the incarcerated in-school subjects.

4. The incarcerated in-school subjects were more self-accepting than the incarcerated not-in-school subjects.

5. Minority-group subjects vs. majority-group subjects were not significantly different from one-another in terms of self-concept attitudes.

6. Age does seem to have some effect upon self-concept attitudes between main groups rather than within main groups.

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