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Abstract
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A group of 100 sophomores submitted lists containing not less than five or more than ten major life problems which caused them definite emotional concern and which demanded their best intellectual efforts to solve. The problems were arranged in three ways: (1) with respect to frequency of mention, (2) according to proportion of first mentions to total mentions under each item, (3) according to relative position in individual series. Only vocation and personality development at the high end and hobbies at the low end were consistent in all three series. Sexual questions ranked second in the first series, but dropped to eleventh and twelfth places when classified by an importance index. Inferiority complex, on the other hand, revealed a reversed picture. The author was impressed by the complete absence of esthetic issues in the lists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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