Abstract: In the attempt of studying the common characteristics of young peas- ants' personality structure and the differences between the peasants who had started a rich life depending on learning and exercising advanced te- chniques in their productive labours and the peasants of ordinary life le- vel, the Cattel's Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire was used in measuring the personality characteristics of 168 young peasants in the three provinces of Liao Ning, Jilin and Hei Long Jiang, Northeast China. The results showed that the rich young peasants were superior to the ot- her young peasants in the factors of intelligence (B), premia-harria(I), experimentation (Al), dominance-submissiveness (E) and super-ago str- ength (G); In the style of the secondary personality factors, the formers were more adaptive while the latterk were more timid.

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