Abstract
To test whether Kline's three new scales representing Freudian concepts of oral optimism, oral pessimism and anal character, respectively, were measuring dimensions separate from general personality factors, these scales were administered along with some scales developed by the writer. The evidence appeared to indicate that only the anal character scale is separable in the sense that although this scale correlates with the writer's Superego and Suspicion scales (and with Cattell's Superego scale), it appears to be separate from anxiety and potentially separable from psychoticism.
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