Adjustment From Primary to Secondary School: A One Year Follow‐up

S ummary . Four hundred and eighty‐two children aged 10 and 11 years who were in their final year in primary school were followed up a year later to determine the extent to which personality, behavioural and educational variables as measured by tests, questionnaires and ratings, related to their social, emotional and educational adjustment in the secondary school. In general, correlations between the primary school variables and criterion variables were low. Behaviour in the primary school showed the highest correlation with adjustment after transfer whilst personality measures were unrelated to the criteria. Multiple regression analyses showed that the predictive efficiency of the primary variables in combination was also poor.