The study was designed to explore the validity of notions held by the women's liberation movement regarding personality characteristics of movement activists. Two groups, one composed of 19 college student activists in the women's liberation movement and the other composed of 34 female college students, were given a computer-administered MMPI. The results do not support the imputations that these college student activists in the women's liberation movement exhibit deviant personality characteristics or that they are more maladjusted than control subjects.
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