A psychoneurotic inventory for children between nine and fourteen years of age

Abstract

A group of 1663 children in grades 4-9 in Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio, served as an experimental group for the development of a psychoneurotic inventory. Items were selected from various sources and careful analysis of the literature in this field. The reliability of this form of 176 items is .896 + .007. Correlations were found between neurotic score and each of the following factors: age (.009), MA (-.111), IQ (.013), socio-economic status (-.118) and grade level (-.370). No significant sex differences were discerned. "Children who make high neurotic scores show reliable differences when compared with normal children with regard to dreams, home situation, physical symptoms, school adjustment, and general social adaptation." Symptoms mentioned in the literature such as "left-handedness, blushing, being the oldest or youngest child in the family, sleeping in the same room with parents, and ability to tolerate pain were found to be statistically invalid." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)