Abstract
Introversion/extraversion, anxiety and the fourteen personality source traits of the H.S.P.Q. were tested as discriminants for categorizing children as expressing aversion to physical punishment or detention. None of the factors was shown to exercise a discriminant function. Sex-type and aversion for punishment type were shown to be related, males expressing greater aversion for detention and females for physical punishment. The negative finding for introversion/extra-version failed to support a prediction from Eysenck's theory that extraverts would exhibit a greater aversion for detention and introverts for physical punishment. Eysenck's criticism of this result, based on the contention that anxiety may be a confounding variable, found no support.