The Stanford Preschool Internal-External Scale (SPIES) was administered to middle class kindergarten children to investigate whether the characteristics of the test would remain stable as it did for the normative sample. (Author/DEP)

Reports a British study that explores relationship between social class and personality among 11-year-olds, using the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory-Short Form. Social class was determined by the father's occupation, and alternatively, by neighborhood. No correlation was found between father's occupation and any of the four personality…

Fifty-eight middle class children were tested over 6 years with 25 achievement, I.Q., and personality tests. Consistency of test results were evaluated by a variance comparison method and a simple signal detection model. Both methods lead to the conclusion that achievement tests are far better predictors than personality tests with I.Q. scales…

THIS BOOK IS A PSYCHODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE ADAPTION OF NEGROES TO AMERICAN SOCIETY AND ITS EFFECT ON THE NEGRO PERSONALITY. A LARGE PART OF THE BOOK IS MADE UP OF SUMMARIES OF PERSONALITY STUDIES OF 25 URBAN NEGROES OF DIFFERENT SEX, AGE, AND STATUS. TWELVE OF THE 25 NEGROES WERE UNDERGOING PSYCHOTHERAPY. A DISCUSSION OF THE WHITE MAN'S SOCIAL…

Four research papers on temperament and school learning and two commentaries are presented. "Early Temperament and Later Educational Outcomes," by Jacqueline V. Lerner, Stella Chess, and Kathleen Lenerz, discusses temperament characteristics and academic attainment. One hundred thirty-three middle class subjects were studied from early infancy…