42 freshman nursing students enrolled in a 3-yr. diploma program were tested on a battery of achievement/aptitude, demographic and personality measures. Product-moment correlations and multiple linear regression were utilized to assess relationships between criterion measures of success, academic failure and non-academic withdrawal with personal measures. Results may be used to develop an epidemiology of student attrition.
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