Themes obtained from the Animal Preference Test and their relationship to specific behavioral problems.
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Title
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Themes obtained from the Animal Preference Test and their relationship to specific behavioral problems.
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Identifier
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AAI9009775
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identifier
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9009775
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Creator
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Rojas, Evelyn Baez.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Steve Tuber
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Date
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1989
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Personality
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Abstract
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This investigation attempted to determine whether performance on the Animal Preference Test correlated with parental assessment of children's pathological behavioral problems as measured by the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist.;The 40 Black and Hispanic boys in this study, aged 6-12, were asked to name the three animals they would most like to be and the three animals they would least like to be if they were not a human being. Reasons for animal choice were categorized into one of four theme categories: Aggressive, Autonomy, Nurturance and Pleasure-Beauty.;Predominance of Nurturance-Pleasure-Beauty themes for the negative question (animal I would least like to be), correlated with pathological behaviors in 5 out of the 9 subscales of the Child Behavior Checklist at the.01 and.05 level of significance.;Predominance of Aggressive/Autonomy themes failed to correlate with any pathological behaviors of the Child Behavior Checklist.;The difference between the nurturing-rejecting group and the aggressive-rejecting group is explained in terms of Fairbairn's (1952) theory of early object relations.;It is postulated that the nurturing-rejecting group may have experienced more sadistic and depriving early object relationships which resulted in a more pervasive fragmentation of the ego than the aggression-rejecting group.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
