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Reactions of Children within Family Groups as Measured by the Bene-Anthony Tests

From The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology

ABSTRACT

Sixty-nine children in 28 families, 17 American Negroes, 46 Puerto Ricans, 6 Americans of European descent, were tested by the Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test. No attempt was made to distinguish between the various national groups, as these were all considered to be living under similar social conditions ; that is, in the same metropolitan slum sub-culture.

The Bene-Anthony Test provides a paradigm of each child tested in terms of the child's feelings in regard to himself and to members of his family as these feelings are brought out in the test situation. Whether a different pattern of relationships can be discerned under special conditions of family life was the question asked by the writers of this paper. The comparison of the test scores achieved by the children as these were rated high or low on six qualitative variables in family life did bring out significant patterns in boys and girls of different age groups and in the group, as a whole.