Three Experiments Using the Junior Maudsley Personality Inventory

S ummary . The Junior Maudsley Personality Inventory was administered to 3,559 schoolboys between the ages of 11 years to 14 years 11 months, in secondary schools in Devon. The results obtained indicate that there is an association between achievement of status in the educational hierarchy and scoring on Neuroticism. Lower status groups (e.g., secondary modern schools and less intelligent groups within all schools) were shown to have higher Neuroticism averages than the higher status groups (grammar schools and more intelligent groups within schools). The evidence was that at the top of the educational hierarchy there is a tendency for Neuroticism and Intelligence to be positively correlated for individuals whilst at the bottom of the hierarchy they are significantly negatively correlated. Neuroticism and Extraversion were both found to vary slightly with age. The younger age groups have higher Neuroticism averages but lower Extraversion averages.