This is the third study this author made on the psychological needs of Chinese students by using EPPS. Subjects were 486 students drawn from National Taiwan Normal University. The results were compared with those of two previous studies in 1963 and 1975 by this author with the same instrument. Data obtained indicated that after twenty four years, there was a significant decline on the needs of achievement, deference, order, nurturance, and endurance while there was an increase on exhibition, autonomy, change, heterosexuality and introspection. Between 1975 and 1987, the need of Chinese university students on dominance and aggression were decreasing and their need on succorance was increasing while the need on abasement and affiliation did not show any significant change. Among those subjects, 325 were administrated both the forced choice form and the single item Likert rating scale of EPPS. Nothing could be said in regard to the question that which was the better form of the EPPS as a personality test.
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