The relation of nAch to extraversion,emotional instability and level of anxiety in people of different social status and success

Questionnaires of personality (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism and Lie scales) and anxiety, together with a questionnaire for measuring need for achievement (nAch), were administered to a Bulgarian population consisting of four groups: gifted and talented high-school students, and eminent industrialists, artists etc. Correlations were observed between nAch but these differed between groups, an explanation required the recognition of the socially recognized success of the individual on his responses. A theoretical explanation of the findings is given in terms of the theories of Leontiev and Ananiev.