Emotional handicaps to learning in two cultures

Deteriorating academic performance in schoolchildren may be due to emotional rather than intellectual causes, but these are not always recognized. The problem is likely to be of increasing importance in African children in Rhodesia as the general level of education rises. Emotional problems in 11 European and 16 African schoolchildren are compared. Although no firm conclusions can be drawn, the evidence suggests that the same conceptual framework may be used for both groups; that physical symptoms may present more often in African children; and that 'over-driving' and peer group rejection may be more common. psychopathological factors in African children