Work adjustment and personality factors were measured on 27 mentally retarded adults living in a halfway house. Successful employment (n = 21) was related to conscientiousness, assertiveness, self-sufficiency, and imaginativeness as personality variables and die attitudinal variables of cooperativeness, punctuality, completing work on time, attendance, and quality of work. It appears that both personality and attitudinal variables have a major impact upon the successful employment of retarded persons. These factors may be quite independent of specific job skills.
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