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Professional staff, teachers, and parents of children in a treatment center comprised the 147 subjects who ranked the 55 behavior statements from the Peterson-Quay Behavior Problem Checklist, each in terms of its judged importance for the mental health of children. Intercorrelations among all groups were high, significant, and ranged from +.77 to +.92. Analyses of variance computed on the mean rank scores of those factorially derived items associated with acting-out behavior as well as those associated with personality problems failed to show those items as differing in importance from the remaining items (P>.05 <.10).
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This project was completed with the support of the research committee of the Adler Zone Center.
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Auger, T.J., Auger, S.E. Differences in perceptions of the seriousness of various behavior descriptors among mental health staff and others. Community Ment Health J 10, 93–101 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434575
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