Suchergebnisse

The aim of the present study was to examine the pattern of parental choice of high schools for their children, bearing in mind their socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. A representative heterogeneous sample of parents of 220 8th grade boys and girls, who served as the research sample
in the study, responded to the Parental Choice of School Scale. Statistical analyses of the results indicate that middle and upper-middle socioeconomic status parents of Western ethnic origin are characterised by parental choice based on intrinsic parental resources as well as on high level
school prestige. Parents from the lower-middle and lower socioeconomic status and of Oriental ethnic origin were typified by parental choice of high schools based on extrinsic parental resources without the school prestige factor being taken into account. Parents of heterogeneous socioeconomic
status and of Mixed ethnic origin took a "middle of the road" attitude and were characterised by parental choice of high schools that integrated the choices typifying parents of Western and Oriental ethnic origin.

A sample of 415 female Hebrew-speaking Israeli undergraduate students completed a Hebrew translation of the items of the EPQR-A and EPQR-S. The findings support the comparability of the two instruments and the reliability of the extraversion, neuroticism and lie scales. The psychoticism
scales, however, were found to be less satisfactory.

A series of earlier studies, conducted in England, Australia and the USA has suggested that the EPQ lie scale contains two empirically distinct components, one functioning partly as an index of socially conforming behavior and the other functioning as a purer index of lying or dissimulation
less contaminated by social conformity. The present study among a sample of 190 Hebrew speaking Israeli students fails to confirm these earlier findings. The conclusion is drawn that the lie scale may function somewhat differently in different cultural contexts.