Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).

Research supported by a U.S. Public Health Service fellowship grant and by grant No. 01368-04 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

From Educational Leadership Research Supplement, volume 2, number 4, March 1969. Investigation supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grants, 5-R11 MH 01096 and 7-R11 MH 02045.

Research supported in part by grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (MH-08542).

Delivered at XI Interamerican Congress of Psychology; Sociedad Interamericana Psicologia and Texas Psychological Association, Mexico, D.F., December, 1967.

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