PRESERVICE PERSONALITY PROBLEMS AND SUBSEQUENT ADJUSTMENTS TO MILITARY SERVICE, A Replication of “The Prediction of Psychoneurotic Reactions”

摘要

This is a replication of an earlier study which had indicated that a history of earlier peer-group difficulties tends to identify sub-sequent neurotic deviates in service. It has been found that a predictive procedure de¬scribed before based primarily on information relating to earlier peer-group adjustment was equally effective with a new group of 98 in¬dividuals who, during childhood or adolescence, had been treated in a child guidance clinic. The 98 persons consisted of 49 who were di¬agnosed as psychoneurotic while in service and 49 who attained a grade of sergeant or higher without any adverse indications in their service records.