The relation between antisocial behavior and personality was investigated in 72 well behaved schoolboys, 45 badly behaved schoolboys and 30 delinquent boys, aged 13 to 15 yr. The only significant difference between delinquents and badly behaved schoolboys was in the degree of antisocial behavior, suggesting that the latter might be the potential delinquents. Well behaved schoolboys differed from the other two groups in antisocial behavior and, in addition, from the badly behaved boys on Extraversion and from the delinquents on Toughmindedness (Psychoticism). On a scale of criminal propensity well behaved boys were again significantly differentiated from both of the other groups.
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