Basic ef*u (EuRcUu)

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This is not an uncommon adjustment that is more frequently found in women than in men. Although the ef*u has many characteristics in common with the ef*a*, [EuRcUc] there is a fundamental difference in that the ef*u has failed to recognize or learn the need to modify his social interpersonal behavior. The ef*u may be quite negativistic and introverted, or he may be satisfied to be whatever he considers "himself' and make little effort to change or adapt his social . personality. The ultimate adjustment of the ef*u is a function of his ability to learn and perform some useful mechanical-procedural function and his ability to find a milieu in which his social characteristics are accepted.

The primary characteristics of the ef*a* [EuFcUc] are conventionality and his need to please. It should be pointed out, however, that the ef*a*is conventional only because he has made a definite attempt to fit into the pattern of the environment in which he finds himself. The ef*u, on the other hand, tends to be both unconventional and negativistic. It is almost characteristic of the ef*u to revolt against, or escape from, the environmental pattern of his early years and to seek a new group that will take him as he is. Rebellion, passive negativism, and behavior difficulties are features of the ef*u individual's history, but if he can escape his initial group and find psychological satisfaction with a new group, and adamantly hostile toward the old. This adjustment, of course, is very similar to that of the i*f*u. [EcRcUu] However, the i*f*u [EcRcUu] is intellectually oriented and aggressively argumentative; the ef*u has more of an emotional dependency quality in his adjustment and usually is more bewildered and anxious because he is unable to achieve the intellectual rationalization of the i*f*u. [EcRcUu] Thus, the ef*u is more passive and more socially introverted.

The ef*u with average intelligence can usually find some active manual-manipulation activity that he can learn well; he finds his total psychological satisfaction with people that have the same skills and interests, and feels uncomfortable, embarrassed, and out of place with any other group. The stereo-typical airplane pilot, baseball player, and skilled artisan frequently come from this cluster. The ef*u with higher intellectual levels tends to have little intellectual versatility. He does poorly in subjects he does not like, and very well in those subjects he does like. He tends to concentrate in highly specialized fields such as art or music, or goes into fields like social work, industrial arts, physical education, and the like where he can either concentrate on people who have similar skills and interests or identify with and help underprivileged, out-of-pattern, or misunderstood people. That is, he wants to help those who, like himself, have a need to escape from the milieu in which they are. Suspicion about the motives and attitudes of others is a prominent feature of the ef*u. His life adjustment has been achieved by considerable rebellion, but he has also been subject to a great deal of forced conformity. His failure to conform has often resulted in strong attempts to force him to adapt. Once he has achieved some success, he is, probably quite unconsciously, always on guard against those who threaten his freedom or pattern of activities and interests. He is possessive, jealous, and secretive about his own material possessions, emotional attitudes, and intimate personal relationships.