Abstract
Summary. The Junior Maudsley Personality Inventory was given to samples of children from an urban comprehensive school (138) and a boys' public school (40). In addition, the General Anxiety Scale for children and a reminiscence test were administered in the comprehensive school. Both I.Q. measures and terminal examination results were taken from the school record cards. A teacher‐rating of Extraversion‐Introversion was obtained from the public school.The results indicated that Extraversion, neuroticism and I.Q. were statistically unrelated and that there was a positive correlation between stable Introversion and attainment in school examinations. High or even moderate neuroticism or general anxiety were not advantageously related to attainment and the Yerkes‐Dodson law was not detected. Reminiscence scores were negatively related to attainment which is in the predicted direction. An analysis of the mean I.Q. and Extraversion scores for promoted and demoted children showed that the former were significantly introvert whilst demoted children tended to be extravert. The public school sample showed some unusual personality trends and some teacher‐ratings at this school seemed reasonably sound.
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