Abstract
Questionnaires administered in 1962 and 1966 have shown that there is a relationship between the social classes of occupations aspired to and actually achieved by grammar school boys. Anxiety seems to affect achievements but not aspirations.
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LITTIG, L. Anxiety and Achievement of Grammar School Boys. Nature 226, 411–412 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226411a0
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