caa a22 4500 386397295 CHVBK 20180307112142.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0816512200026018 doi S0816512200026018 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0816512200026018 "Everybody will be bigger than me”: Children's Perceptions of the Transition to High School [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Mertin, Elizabeth Haebich, Judy Lokan] Grade 7 children's attitudes to high school were assessed through their drawings of how they perceived high school prior to making the transition from primary school. Seven categories were used to analyse the drawings. The results revealed a preponderance of negative features in the drawings, especially amongst the boys. Anxieties such as vulnerability in the new school environment were suggested. A follow-up, once the adolescents had been in high school for six months, revealed more positive features in the drawings indicative of adjustment to the new school environment, and no sex difference in the ratio of positive to negative features was recorded. Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1989 Mertin Peter Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, S.A. aut Haebich Elizabeth Underdale College of Advanced Education, S.A. Lokan Judy Family Planning Association, S.A. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-11), 2-5 0816-5122 6:2<2 1989 6 EDP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0816512200026018 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0816512200026018 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mertin Peter Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haebich Elizabeth Underdale College of Advanced Education, S.A NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lokan Judy Family Planning Association, S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-11), 2-5 0816-5122 6:2<2 1989 6 EDP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge