Publication Date

1969

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Reed, Mary Frances, 1906-||Sie, Georgiana W.

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Home Economics

LCSH

Children--Language; Social conflict; Speech

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to discover if the verbalizations of three, four, and five-year-old children in response to six picture- stories involving social conflict would be either predominantly dominative or integrative. The sample included 80 young children, three years six months to five years four months, 48 boys and 32 girls, from two different sources. Each of the 80 children responded to a series of six picture- stories individually and verbalizations were tape recorded and analyzed to find if they were predominantly dominative or integrative. Analysis of the data by Chi-square test indicates that: The subjects used significantly more domination than integration. Boys, compared with girls, used significantly more dominative than integrative verbalizations. There were no significant differences between the two groups nor between younger and older children in the number of dominative and integrative verbalizations used.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references.||Includes illustrations.

Extent

vii, 82 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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