On the transaction of social change processes and the perception of self in relation to others: a study of Greek preadolescents.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perception of self and others on the one hand, and milieu complexity on the other. The basic assumption was that comparison of TAT records of two groups of preadolescents living in an urban-industrialized and rural-traditional milieu, respectively, would reveal more interpersonal and intrapersonal conflict in the first group. The TAT stories were analyzed by story sequence analysis. 16 judges rated the sequence on the basis of a number of scales referring to several variables. The criteria developed for the rating were formulated on the basis of five working hypotheses which concerned degree of syntonicity between personal goals and family expectations, perception of human relationships, possibility assumptions as well as degree of involvement in active effort, etc. All hypotheses were supported.