ABSTRACT
R. J. Havighurst and H. Taba found that their sixteen-year-old respondents were divided into two groups; those with high reputations and those with low reputations among adults and their peers. The former can be subdivided into self-directive persons, adaptive persons and submissive persons. The latter can be similarly classified as unadjusted and defiant persons. These must all be studied since they provide an opportunity to marry the psychosocial analysis to the developmental scheme. The profile of the self-directive personality type will show clearly that one finds conduct directed by a personal moral control. The implicit relationship between personality types and moral controls is clear. The defiant personality type can be located at the egocentric level of J. Piaget and the prudential amoral level of control suggested by D. Kennedy-Fraser. In the submissive personality type one has a person directed by authoritarian controls.
