Abstract
Eighty elementary-school districts were selected from thirty local governments of fifteen prefectures, which were randomly extracted out of seven blocks of Japan. Then, 4700 men and women between 15 and 80, randomly sampled, were requested by mail to cooperate with a study to standardize NMPI-1, MINI, and MINI-124. The MMPI-1 forms were returned by 1267, and l178 found valid. They were divided into four generations: adolescents (15-22 years old), early (23-39), middle (40-59), and late adults (60 and over). Generational differences were examined, men and women separately, with one-way ANOVA, and many were significant. Adolescents were most forthright, and somewhat higher on clinical scales: somatization tendency, anxiety, tension, hypersensitivity, alienation, deviations from social norms, imagination, sensitivity, and interest in literature. Early adults tended to be defensive, a tendency strengthened in older generations, and their pathology seemed suppressed. A depressive tendency found in older generations was non-significant, perhaps because of the suppression. The older generations disliked association with others, but were no less sociable. The necessity to standardize personality tests for generations separately was discussed.
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