INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTS, TEACHER RATINGS, AND HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS

This study investigated the relationship between chil-dren's perception of parents as loving or rejecting and the general emotional adjustment of these children. Emotional adjustment was reflected by behavior within a regular class-room as observed by the teacher and by performance on a projective personality test. The population was composed of predominantly "middle class " fourth-, sixth-, and eighth-grade children in a pre-dominantly white suburban school district. Three measures were obtained from each child. The first involved the child's perception of his parents as loving or rejecting (L-R), determined by summing the scores on three scales (Loving, Rejecting, Neglecting) of the Roe Siegelman Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PGR). The second measure involved assessment of the classroom, behavior of each child by. hi