Abstract
The relationship between psychological test performance and adult judgments of children’s intelligence was explored in Guatemala and the U. S. A. In Guatemala, 15 male and 15 female children, age eight, were studied in each of two rural villages. In one village, 48 adult community members ranked the children on intelligence; in the other, 29 adults did the rankings. Male and female children were ranked separately. In the U. S., nine male children in a small New Jersey town were ranked by 25 adults. In a second U. S. community. a small California town, eight male children were ranked by 14 adults. In general, adult judgments were found to be congruent with children’s test performance. In Guatemala, a simple family socioeconomic index was also related to both adult judgment and children’s test performance. The implications of the results and the utility of these types of judgment techniques in cross-cultural research are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 273-279 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1976 |
Funding
1 The data for this study are drawn from the Guatemalan growth and development project by Contract N01-HD-S-0640 of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Llevelopment, N.I.H. This investigation is part of a program of collaborative research on Uniform Measures of Social Competence by H. E. Freeman, J. Kagan, R. E. Klein, anc. A. K. Romney and is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant GS-33047) and the Grant Foundation.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
- Education
- General Psychology