The use of moxacautery for punishment and for medical reasons in prediction of differences in secondary needs measured by the EPPS was assessed by means of a short and extended survey form in a large rural high school near Tokyo. From data on 1000 students, it was found that eight had received moxacautery as punishment and seventeen had received it for medical reasons. Using stepwise discriminant analysis, it was found that females showed poor socialization if they had received moxacautery as punishment at a significantly younger age in comparison with males and females who had received it for medical reasons. Females who received moxacautery as punishment were lower on the first and second canonical variates, showing a lesser need for order, exhibition, nlirturance, and endurance, while students who had moxacautery for medical reasons were higher on the first and second canonical variates, showing greater need for achievement, deference, autonomy, affiliation, intraception, and nurturance. These preliminary results were interpreted as being indicative of poorer socialization for females who received moxacautery as punishment.