An analysis of two hundred quarrels of preschool children.

DESPITE the modern interest in child development and in personality, maladjustment and social behavior, quarreling, a common type of child behavior has received little or no attention. Occasionally there is some discussion of quarrels in the literature on child training, in observational notes, and in child biographies. Sometimes quarrelsomeness appears as an item in rating scales for personality traits. What systematic treatment there is, is to be found mainly in the literature on anger, or incidental to studies of personality or social behavior. The character of the studies made is indicated in the following review. With some types of investigation as summarized by Goodenough (14), we need not concern ourselves: for ex-