Mental tests of unemployed men

Abstract

Determines the mentality of a sample of applicants at two employment offices, to show the effect of the environment of the office on the character of the applicants and to check upon similar earlier work (JAP 1917, Vol 2(5), Sep, pp.278-287). The results showed a very high percentage of feeble minded, borderline and backward cases. There seemed to be a distinct relationship between the mentality and the industrial class to which a man belonged. The results of the control investigation at the second office were similar to those in the first office, with the exception that the general level of the applicants in the second office was above that of those in the first office. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)