ABSTRACT
Hypothesis the author was concerned with the personality needs of accident involved children. From the clinical material reviewed at the outset of the investigation the assumption was made that these children, as a group, would appear more anxious, assertive and guilty than a carefully matched group of control children. The testing of this hypothesis proceeded in three stages. In order to ascertain whether any observed personality needs were specific to the accident involved children, and not general to all children with similar personal characteristics, a control group was selected for comparison. In order to assess differences in degree or pattern of unsettledness displayed by accident involved children in school, the class teacher of each subject-control pair was asked to fill in a Bristol Social Adjustment Guide for each child. A further analysis was made of the themes relating to parent-child interaction to be found in the T.A.T. protocols of the thirty-six children.
