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A Factor Analysis of Some Child Psychiatric Clinic Data^*

Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, University of London

Kenneth Cameron, Consultant Physician, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals

^* Part of the material of this paper was presented by L. F. Collins to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society at Liverpool, April 1961.

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the outcome of a principal component (factor) analysis carried out on some child psychiatric clinic case material. Two samples were used: 268 boys between their eighth and tenth birthdays and 98 girls of the same age. All children regarded as epileptic, psychotic or mentally defective had been eliminated from these samples, leaving the wide range of personality and behaviour problems familiar in child guidance clinics. The analysis of the boys' and girls' material was carried out separately. The variables used in the study were some 60 or more items including most of the variables usually regarded as relevant to assessment of child guidance clinic cases.

Relatively little intercorrelation and common variance was found in the data. Factors of "Rebelliousness", "Rootlessness" and "Anxiety" were identified amongst the boys. With the girls, "Rebelliousness" and "Rootlessness" appear as a single factor. They show a "Timid, School Failure"factor that did not emerge for the boys; and an "Anxiety" factor somewhat comparable with that of the boys.