| Abstrakt: |
The article investigates some individual and group differences in voting for self among 67 delinquent boys from different backgrounds. The subjects were asked to cast up to three votes for the person or persons, including themselves, whom they thought would make the best leaders. The results were analyzed for differences in religion, chronological age, elected leadership, and color between those who voted for themselves and those who did not cast self-votes. The evidence that members of the various religious groups differ significantly from other groups in certain areas, including voting behavior, seemed to warrant investigation of the possible effect of religious affiliation and religious training on casting votes for one's self. More recently. Brown and Lowe found that Catholic undergraduate students were as a group considerably more orthodox in their opinions and attitudes than Protestants. Self-confidence has been reported as one characteristic which apparently distinguishes the leader from the non-leader. |
