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The article presents concrete evidence on two cases of high concordance of development. The case of a girl who has a high intellective ability is discussed. The dynamic picture of the girl's total personality development is outlined. These discussions of two cases have treated materials in the area of social interaction somewhat as though they flowed out of emotional and biological development. The major emphasis remains on viewing the development of an individual as a whole and in all the various aspects of growth.

The article determines the relationship between emotional and social development for boys. It is conceived that the emotional area of development is intermediate between inner chemical changes in the body and the appearance of outer social behavior. In both sexes, the physical and social areas have a low rank order correlation and this is reflected further by the partial correlations which indicate that the joint agreement of these two areas is very low as regards the way they relate to the emotional area.

This article presents a research on the emotional development in childhood and adolescence. The author emphasized the necessity of defining and recognizing anxiety, neuroticism and stress before considering etiology. In other studies, comparisons on high anxious children with low anxious children revealed that high anxious children tended to show slower reaction times, more sex-appropriate behavior, to be less popular, more perceptual rigidity, and to recall interrupted tasks. No measurable relationship was obtained by the author between measures of emotional adjustment of children and measures of either parental attitudes on child rearing.

The article delineates significant relationships between physical, emotional and social development in adolescence. The development of character and personality during later childhood and adolescence is investigated. The psychological phenomena of adolescence is examined. The appearance of relatively early or late development of any area with respect to any other area in a particular individual is a means of classifying that person as an object of scientific interest. The changes in the expression of personality which refers to feelings and attitudes as well as overt behavior in social interaction is discussed.

This article reviews the physiological aspects of development on children. The review of the research has been divided into the following general periods: (a) prenatal (b) birth and neonatal (c) preschool and childhood and (d) adolescent. The research found that adolescent acne have been attributed to an imbalance between the secretion of male and female sex hormones. The research also reported successful treatment of acne by dietary regulation and administration of vitamins of the B complex because of its psychological importance to the developing adolescent.

The article presents a detailed discussion about marriage and family. It focuses on the impact of an unsatisfactory relationship of brother to brother on the development of personality. It states that the difficult period in a child's life is adolescence, because the child is already in a turning point where he organizes his life for himself, isolate himself bit by bit from adult control, and come to a realization of being capable of formulating and following his own program and philosophy of life.

An attempt was made to construct an instrument sensitive to the continuous development of the principle of intentionality in moral judgment through adolescence. 3 facets were used to define, the questionnaire items: usage/verbalization, recognition/recall, and crudeness/refinement. It was hypothesized that verbalization of the principle must precede the development necessary for its spontaneous recall, and both must precede its most refined applications. On the basis of strictest criteria for testing scalability, the hypothesized structure was confirmed in each of the ages tested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the rationale of assessing the developmental status of children from roentgenograms of the hand and wrist. Determination of the physical developmental status of children; Establishment of school health programs; Increase in the request for routine health examination of children.

Hofstaetter's factor analysis of mental test scores from infancy through adolescence is reconsidered. A series of factors, each prominent during 1 age period, is to be expected when data on growth are treated in the conventional manner. The locations of the factors with regard to age give no fundamental information on stages of development, since arbitrary decisions regarding the beginning and ending of the series produce radical shifts in the ages where new factors become prominent. The Thurstone concept of simple structure does not provide an appropriate model for explaining longitudinal changes in performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mental growth, being also based on the maturation of the nervous system, could be related to physiological puberty in two ways, early occurrence of puberty being an expression of accelerated brain maturation could presumably be linked with mental precocity and intensified physical growth at the threshold of adolescence could be paralleled by a concomitant spurt in mental maturation. This article examines the general relationship between physiological and mental maturation demonstrated in Israeli children, and to make an attempt to explore the eventual occurrence of a pubertal mental growth spurt.

The article presents a discussion about heterosexuality in the monograph relative to sexuality of the child's development to adolescence, that was published in the May 1937 issue of "Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development." It explains that among the main points of heterosexuality and information on social-sexual attraction are focused more on adolescents. It states that friendship-love relationships of adolescents are studied and observed based on letters. It adds that one of the basis of heterosexuality is mutual masturbation.

The article presents a discussion about implicit sexuality in the monograph relative to sexuality of the child's development to adolescence, that was published in the May 1937 issue of "Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development." It mentions the results from questionnaires relative to childhood sex impressions and problems. It shows that studies based from the results seem to reflect considerable cultural differentials, partly secular and partly geographic. Some differentials were also affected by other sources from older men, relatives, lectures, reading, observation and experience.

The article reports on the puberty of children and its relation to their mental growth. Puberty is considered the most important index of maturity for both physical and mental aspects. The relation of puberty to physical development and trait development were studied in connection with height, weight, chest girth and blood pressure to name a few. The results of the study show that differences in traits between the subjects continuous to grow until the end of adolescence. However, differences in height are not very evident after the 14th year.

Adolescence represents a developmental continuum between childhood and adulthood. Assessment of an adolescent's behavior can be based upon his efforts in accomplishing developmental tasks and his functioning relative to his stage of development-early adolescence and the casting-off of childhood; middle adolescence with the teen-age subculture; or late adolescence with the establishment of adult values. One should be aware of the conflicts and complications which may arise in each stage of development and routinely evaluate the adolescent's functioning within his family, peer group, and school situation. Assessing behavior in this frame of reference enables the physician to differentiate variations of normal development and behavior from pathological states in his adolescent patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion about para- and homosexuality in the monograph relative to sexuality of the child's development to adolescence, that was published in the May 1937 issue of "Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development." It mentions that twenty-one men and sixteen women told childhood interests and plays with excretory products, and in five other men and six women there was evidently a sexually derived interest in bodily waste. Pleasant thrills from defecation were reported by 26 men and 13 women.

The article presents a discussion about autosexuality in the monograph relative to sexuality of the child's development to adolescence, that was published in the May 1937 issue of "Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development." It states that the occurrence of autosexual practices such as masturbation is much more manifested in boys rather than girls. It explains that the association between masturbation and intercourse is ascribed to methodology and techniques rather than to geography.

The capacity to appreciate and produce metaphoric language is thought to develop at adolescence. Yet metaphors are frequently noted in the speech of preschool children. To resolve this apparent contradiction, a test that probed metaphoric capacity was devised. Matched groups of subjects ranging in age from 3½ to 19 were required to indicate knowledge of the literal meanings of antonymous word pairs and then to project these terms onto domains where they applied only in a metaphoric way. Though there was improvement with age, preschool children demonstrated considerable ability at this task; the order of difficulty of words and domains were regular across age, except for an isolated difficulty displayed by the preschool children in projecting words onto swatches of color; reasons for matches differ markedly across ages. Whether metaphoric capacity is attributed to children appears to depend upon whether the ability to select acceptable metaphors or an explicit awareness of the rationale for the metaphor is the criterion. Both the distinction between an operative skill and an awareness of its existence and the preconditions for metaphoric competence are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion on the scientific child study of children and the role of education in the conduct of this study. It also presents the results of the conducted studies for the last fifteen years which include greater care for the children's health, enhanced interest in securing character results, appreciation of the complexity of the nature of children, determine the development stages in children, a better realization of the importance of the adolescent stage, and closer cooperation between parents and teachers. It also discusses the shortcomings committed in the study.

The article reports on the rate of mental and physical growth. The use of curves of variability in mental and physical measures are considered in the study. The changes in the variability from a certain age to another was studied to be associated with changes in rate of growth. These variability plays a significant part in the study of the mental and physical measures. During the early years of adolescence, the physical growth is in accordance with the increasing variability in the physical traits of children. Moreover, the variability, whether relative or absolute, increases as long as the growth rate of the subjects is positively increasing as well.