Personality Correlates of Sociometric Popularity in Elementary School Children

H uman behavior may be viewed as both “cause and effect” in the social milieu within which the individual develops. This dual role is particularly true of personality patterns, because they reflect certain interpersonal behavioral constants between the individual and his peers. Behavioral scientists recognize that peer acceptance or the lack of it is determined in large part by the personality traits which are exhibited by the individual. They have also recognized that the relationship between personality and the learning of school subjects is an intimate one. Nearly every recent text in educational psychology relates the need for peer acceptance to the learning effe ctiveness of the individual.