An Adolescent Personality Schedule

Abstract

DOLESCENTS, as a rule, respond to the interview as a diagnostic and remedial technique more satisfactorily than any other age group. They have a mastery of verbal facility which the younger child lacks and they have not yet acquired the fixity of repressions and verbal defense mechanisms which impede the progress of the interview with an adult. Because of this initial advantage, interview technique, as it relates to adolescent problems, presents a field which will repay efforts toward further methodological development. The statistically controlled interview, exemplified by mental hygiene inventories and personality schedules is a timesaving and illuminating starting point for any interview if the schedule be well constructed. The Thurstone Personality Schedule for adults offers many advantages from the point of view of ease of presentation, economy of time used in answering and scoring and of statistical reliability. For this reason we used it as a model for a projected statistically controlled interview suitable for use with adolescents.

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