Two factor analyses of two intercorrelation matrices of 35 selected achievement, intellectual, personality, sociometric, physiological, and maturational variables that were obtained for two representative samples of 336 boys and 336 girls in the third grade furnished evidence in only modest support of a holistic hypothesis of the interdependence of psychological and biological function.
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