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The author concludes from the responses of one hundred sixty-nine asthmatic, cardiac, and well children to three psychological tests that although the asthmatic
children show 'neurotic personalities' (anxious, dependent, and insecure) in comparison with the controls, they are not significantly distinguishable in their performance from either the cardiac group or the well siblings of the sick children. He failed to find specific and separate cardiac and asthmatic personalities.