The Juvenile Personality Inventory which is mainly after the pattern of the California Test of Personality, Intermediate level, 1953, is developed as an instrument for personality studies in Chinese junior middle schools.
662 junior middle school students in Taiwan, equally divided by sex, have been given the test and their records are carefully analysed. It is shown that the Chinese junior middle school students, like their American counterparts, obtained the highest score on the “social standard” scale. But the Chinese subjects get very low scores on all other scales due probably to cultural and social factors.
The result also indicates that the Juvenile Personality Inventory is useful for detecting and identifying personality adjustment problems among junior middle school students in China.
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