PERSONALITY-PATTERNS .2. ONTOGENIC SPECIF ICS IN MORAL MATURITY AND LOCUS OF CONTROL RELATIONS

Age trends (children 7-15) and sex differences in 10 scales of CAMI (L ocus of Control), and Moral Maturity Scale (M1 = Heteronomy, M3 = Auto nomy) described in our last studies led us to further interaction anal yses. of these two, and of other contextual social measures. Groups of boys and girls, pupils of primary school classes 2-4, 4-6, 6-8, were compared by means of methods of multivariate analysis and cannonical c orrelation. The results revealed distinct age and sex patterns. We fou nd: a) different hierarchies/structures in boys' and girls' attributio ns connected with moral maturity, and generally stronger cohesion of b oth main constructs in girls, and in older children of both sexes; b) the emergence of a high contextual significance of real school success (marks and teachers' ratings) in classes 4-6, especially among boys, and then its decrease; c) stronger association of moral maturity and s ocial status among girls than among boys, and also here certain age va riabilities. These and other results we obtained seem to prove theorie s of qualitative age changes in the patternings of dynamic and/or matu rity variables in personality. At the same time they throw some doubts on the traded uniformity and regularity in growth and development tre nds of these variables.