A STUDY OF BOY ATTITUDES TOWARD PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR EFFORT.

The article presents a study on boys' attitudes towards participation in the war effort. Boys have been playing a vital role in the World War II. They have collected paper and salvage, distributed leaflets and posters, run messages, spotted planes, worked on farms, and made themselves useful in countless other ways. This study aims to discover what boys and their leaders think of the war service jobs they are asked to do and what they both think of the way the jobs were done. The data were collected in three New York localities and one in New Jersey during September, 1942. These four communities represent different population sizes and densities: rural, urban plus rural, urban, and metropolitan. Many types of war activities were reported by the boys, but the following services listed in order of frequency of participation were most widely rendered. The boys were asked which of these war services they considered most important and why. Analysis has been made of the boys' ratings of the importance and fun of their war jobs and the reasons for these ratings.