Early recollections related to anxiety and introversion-extroversion.

The relationship between personality characteristics and early recollections (ERs) was investigated. The hypotheses were that a consistent relationship would be established (a) between Taylor Manifest Anxiety (MA) Scale scores and the anxiety content of ERs, and (b) between R scale scores of the Inventory of Factors STDCR and the introversion-extroversion (I-E) content of ERs. The significant findings indicate that ERs have some utility in evaluating personality characteristics. The nonsignificant judges' I-E ratings and the less reliable judges' I-E ratings indicate that I-E features of ERs are more difficult to evaluate than anxiety features. The agreement between Ss' I-E ratings and their R scale scores suggests that they may have approached both tasks in a similar manner. Adler's position, that ERs reflect Ss' style of life, receives some support from the study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)