ABSTRACT
The anxious child is a hostage to fortune, liable to physical illness as well as to nervous complaints. No matter how able the child or how high the academic attainment, the future is not bright unless the anxieties can be removed or the anxiety habit modified. This chapter covers the area of emotional and social adjustment that is vast in itself. All pupils in the Schools project were also given the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ), and a longitudinal sample consisted of all those who had completed it both in 1964 and 1966. In the High School Personality Questionnaire the co-educated senior boys had lower general anxiety scores both at 15 and at 17 years of age than those at boys' schools; this trend was consistent for both occupational classes, but the rate of change favoured the boys' schools, though it was too small to be reliable.
