A discriminant analysis suggested significant biographical and motivational differences between 7 single and 41 married women (but not men, ns = 4 and 54) who graduated from a small midwestern high school between the years of 1907 and 1967. In profile, single women were younger and better educated but reported fewer honors and expressed lower achievement motivation scores than married women. No single variable statistically differentiated single and married men. Correlational analysis showed predictable relationships between biographical variables for married and single men but less so for women.
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