NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NEGRO, WHITE, AND PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN.

COMPARED N ACH OF NEGRO, WHITE, AND PUERTO RICAN 5TH AND 7TH GRADERS IN LOW SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS OF A LARGE NEW ENGLAND CITY. THE N ACH TESTS CONSISTED OF 6 TOPIC SENTENCES ABOUT WHICH SS WROTE STORIES. F TESTS OF N ACH SCORES REVEALED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES. THESE RESULTS CONTRAST WITH THE AUTHOR'S A.D. MINGIONE'S (SEE39:4) PREVIOUS STUDY IN WHICH WHITE CHILDREN HAD HIGHER N ACH SCORES THAN NEGRO CHILDREN AND 7TH GRADERS SCORED HIGHER THAN 5TH GRADERS. THERE WERE MORE WORDS PER STORY, GREATER VARIETY OF STORY THEMES, AND MORE STORIES CONCERNING FEMALES WRITTEN BY BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS THAN IN THE PREVIOUS STUDY, WHEN THE STORIES WERE WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO LINE DRAWINGS OF PEOPLE. SCHOOL GRADES AND GROUP INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORES DID NOT CORRELATE WITH N ACH SCORES IN THIS STUDY. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)