Abstract
Employing chiefly the California Test of Personality, this study compared the personal and social adjustment of 38 never-married women and 38 married mothers. Certain contemporary stereotypes picturing the never-married woman as deficient in personal and social adjustment and insisting that marriage and motherhood are essential to feminine fulfillment were not supported. The two groups in this study exhibited a comparable adjustment pattern, both scoring above the average on norms provided for the CTP. It is concluded that, through creative contribution to society, a never-married woman may achieve a satisfactory adjustment to life and that, though denied a husband and children, she may nonetheless experience adequate personality fulfillment.
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