ABSTRACT
A discriminant analysis was then conducted to verify that an overall pattern of high achievement was just as representative of High-Ability, High-Adapted Achievers from low SES backgrounds as it was of High-Ability, High-Adapted Achievers from high SES backgrounds. However, the socioeconomic status of the first two subgroups was considerably higher than that of the last subgroup. The analysis just given again demonstrated the association between parents’ educationally oriented values, independent of their SES, and high-adapted girls’ high achievement. Considering parents as “job supervisors”, one might apply Feldman’s scenario to our female Swedish adolescents. However, the average employee, whose ability the supervisor may consistently underestimate because of early impressions, may be denied the chance to improve. Whereas the Inaccurates’ intelligence, achievement, and adaptation means were all average or slightly above, compared to the respective means of the entire sample, their level of self-perceived ability was fully one standard deviation below the overall average.
