Cluster analysis of a moral values scale based on responses of 100 matched pairs of delinquent (D) and nondelinquent (ND) boys of high school age revealed 4 highly reliable dimensions: 1) Informing or "snitching", 2 )Masculine inadequacy, 3) Identity conflict, and 4) Aggression. On these matched as well as on replicated samples, the results showed that the D SS consider informing on others as more wrong than the ND Ss, while the ND Ss judged behaviors associated with identity conflict as more wrong than the D Ss. Non-significant relationships were found between the moral value dimensions and age, race, social status and verbal intelligence. The results were discussed in relation to previously postulated assumptions concerning the global nature of morality and the direct relation of verbalized moral values and moral behavior. The results were interpreted as being partially consistent with the notion that the delinquent is not necessarily ignorant of societal values but rather becomes committed to or adopts the values of the deviant subculture.

A sample of 310 Ss composed of 90 normals, 150 anxiety reactions, and 70 schizophrenics was used in a cluster analysis of Barren's 68-item Es scale. The 5 oblique clusters which emerged were: (a) emotional well-being, (b) cognitive well-being, (c) physical well-being, (d) religious attitude of nonbelief and nonparticipation, and (e) seeking heterosexual stimulation and escape from boredom. In a hierarchical analysis, it was found that the first 3 clusters could be combined in a single condensed cluster called sense of wellbeing. Consistent significant mean differences were found between the normal and abnormal groups in both the original sample as well as in a replicated sample of 100 psychiatric and 100 normal Ss for the well-being clusters but not for the religious and heterosexual clusters. The results are discussed both in terms of their empirical and conceptual relevance to the ego-strength construct.