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In the field of criminal etiology, identification of the personality char-acteristics of the juvenile delinquent is a problem to which considerable re-search has been devoted. A variety of instruments have been devised for the purpose of classifying and measuring personality factors, and the past two decades have witnessed considerable advances in this area. In response to the need for standardization and ob-jectivity in the testing of personality, a number of objectively administered and objectively scored tests have been developed. Although subject to cer