The present investigation reviews the racial comparison literature in order to make specific predictions about racial differences on the psychosocial maturity scale developed by Greenberger, Campbell, Sorensen, and O'Connor (1971). On the basis of this review, it was predicted that blacks would score lower than whites on the scale, and that this difference would primarily affect the self-acceptance and independence subscales. It was also anticipated that similar but lesser differences might be found on the identity and acceptance-of-change subscales. Results of the analyses indicate a clear small-to-moderate race effect with blacks scoring lower than whites. The sex effect is more ambiguous. Girls score higher than boys but the effect is negligible. A large effect due to Grade Level emerged, as expected. The multivariate analyses indicate significant but small main effects for sex and race. The findings are primarily due to differences in the Independence subscale, such that girls score higher than boys and whites higher than blacks. The failure to obtain other hypothesized race differences may have been due either to the inadequacy of the subscales at their present stage of development, or to the incorrectness of the hypotheses themselves. (Authors/JM)