AND CONCLUSIONS Two hundred and thirteen college students responded to the open-ended phrase designed to elicit a nadir or "lowest point in life" statement. The replies were classified into a modification of Thorne's classification system. The following are the major conclusions:1. Conative experiences, i.e., those concerned with the satisfaction of physical needs and achievement wishes, proved to be the most frequent source of life's lowest wishes, proved to be the most frequent source of life's lowest point for lack of fulfillmen t .Male and female students are similar with regard to their valuation of several types of life experiences as subjectively traumatic-failures in growth (conative), sensual and emotional experiences.Sex differences emerge with reference to intellectualesthetic (cognitive) and self-actualizing experiential disappointments. The females placed a higher (rank order) value on intellectualesthetic disappointments while the males showed the reverse for self-actualization defeats. REFERENCES 2. 3. 1. ALLEN, R. M., HAOPT T. D. and JONES, R. W. Andy& of peak experience reported by college 2. Haaaow~a, M. ?he doet%npleaaant Concept Teat. J . din. P chol., 1950,8,213-233. 3. MACHOVEB, K. Pereonolity p r o j e d h .

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