Abstract
(1) The present paper deals with an analysis of pupils' attitude toward their teachers. Especially, pupils' adjustment or maladjustment toward teachers and the causes of their adjustment or maladjustment were investigated.
(2) Each subject was given a questionnaire and asked to mark the statements that seemed to be the same with his attitude toward their teacher.
(3) The questionnaire consisted of 54 statements which represented pupils' attitude toward their teacher and were divided into 9 dimensions: Respect, Intimacy, Reliance, Obedience, Dislike, Disobedience, Contempt, Fear, and Dissatisfaction.
(4) Subjects were 563 pupils in 12 classes' of the fifth and sixth grades of two elementary schools.
(5) Significant differences were in followed in the pupils' attitude toward their teacher among the classes. Significant differences were in also found In the attitude toward their teacher between boys and girls. As for the cause of their adjustment of maladjustment, the personality factors of both pupils and their teachers were worth some special consideration.
(6) The correlation to the adjustment varied with the following factors:
Achievement ability... slight correlation
Version quotient... no correlation
Adjustmental character... significant correlation
(7) The change of pupils' adjustment caused from the alternation of the teacher in change was surveyed. The survey clarifies that 71.1% of pupils, that were cared by a teacher throughout year, changed their attitude toward the successor of teaching in the following year.
