In the discussion so far of the D U mothers' personalities, it emerged that about two-thirds of them were dominant, efficient women, that many showed marked obsessional characteristics, and that there was a strong tendency towards psychosomatic symptoms. In contrast it was found that the mothers in the control sample were less dominant, showed hardly any tendencies towards psychosomatic disorders, and that their obsessional preoccupations were also considerably less. However, the amount of neurosis found was the same for both groups of mothers.