Jewish temperament

Abstract

Comparison of scores for 625 adult Jews (high school and college students and parents) with an equal number of non-Jews on the Bernreuter personal inventory and the Heidbreder introversion-inferiority questionnaire reveals the following: (1) Jewish self-attitudes cover a normal range and "in one population faintly suggest bi-modality." (2) Neurosis and inferiority scores of the Jewish group about 60% toward the unfavorable direction. (3) Sex differences are consistently larger than race differences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)