Both Eastern and Western psychologies have a view of what constitutes the psychologically healthy person. Further, both place considerable emphasis on concepts of control and self-control. In previous research, a four quadrant inventory was developed in order to better understand and differentiate the nature of control used in the different traditions, as well as how well these quadrants represented concepts of psychological health. In this study an effort was made to look at the relationship of self-control and psychological health. Over two thousand individuals (the majority in the health and healing professions) in eleven United States cities, described how well these quadrants reflected either self-control, psychological health or social desirability for a person, man or woman. Profile scores for high psychological health and high self control were generated; cluster analysis and two-way analysis of variance revealed that the inventory, as expected, significantly differentiated profiles of individuals with high and low self-control and high and low psychological health. In terms of self-control, the data supported previous findings of positive and negative valence associated with self-control. The data also revealed a cultural bias, in that positive assertive (quadrant one) was seen as significantly more a sign of self control, high psychological health and social desirability than positive yielding (quadrant two); and quadrant three (negative assertive) was similarly seen as significantly more a sign of self-control, high psychological health and social desirability than quadrant four (negative yielding). There were also several examples of sex role bias, e. g. quadrant two (positive yielding) was seen by all respondents as significantly more socially desirable for men than women. The implications of these findings are discussed, both in terms of developing a control model of psychological health; and as a major cornerstone for proposed normative scales that may be used as a clinical assessment inventory in matching self-control strategy to an individual with a particular problem. Guidelines and suggestions for further research are offered.