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This article presents author's concern regarding communications among social scientists referred earlier as horizontal communication and vertical communication. Author says, motivations themselves can be divided into two categories. First, there are scientific or professional motivations and, second, there are personal career motivations for communications between and among social scientists themselves. The scientific reasons are obvious as science marches forward on a base of work being done by many people in many places on many related kinds of problems. For professional reasons social scientists need to have contact with other social scientists, to find out what work has been done and is currently being done so that they may benefit from work done in the past and that which is being conducted by others at present. On the other hand, there are lots of personal career motivations which cause social scientists to be in communication with their colleagues.

The article aims to carry further the quantification of the existential concept of "purpose" or "meaning in life," in particular to measure the condition of existential frustration described by V.E. Frankl, with a view to determining whether his "noogenic" neurosis exists apart from the usual neuroses as dynamically conceived. The concept of "purpose in life" was operationally defined as what the instrument measures; thus the problem became the threefold one of showing that its scores represent (a) what Frankl is describing, (b) something different from the usual neuroses, and (c) a characteristic of psychopathological as distinguished from "normal" groups.