Abstract
76 male embalmers in the New York area with a mean age of 27.12 and who had been working in their field for at least 3 years, along with a control group of butchers, were administered the MMPI, Kuder, Allport‐Vernon‐Lindzey, Otis, A‐S Reaction Study, and the M‐F Masculinity‐Femininity tests. In spite of several similarities between the career lines and job requirements of the two groups, the embalmers' personality characteristics differed significantly, at the 0.01 level or better, from the control group's. The embalmers had considerable feminine identification and many characteristics of neuroticism. Some speculations on the relationship of neuroticism and femininity to occupational success, and on the functions of some relatively unusual occupations like embalming in our society, are suggested.
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