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This article comments on the Martin article on religiosity and suicide rates in the United States. Specifically, it is pointed out by the present author that Martin's data do not allow him to draw the conclusions that he offered in his article. A correlational study does not allow for cause and effect conclusions, and the use of group data precludes conclusions about individual cases.
The relationship between color preference and psychiatric disorders was studied in an outpatient psychiatric sample (N = 1,143). The results were studied by gender and by age. The patients' choice of Luscher's eight colors revealed a sex difference, but only minor variations with age. The present data show both consistencies and discrepancies with past data.
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Administered the short form of the Luscher Color Test and the booklet form of the MMPI to 42 graduate students in a counseling program. For every S a report that described personality was written from the test results, i.e., each S had two reports, one from the Color Test and one from the MMPI. These reports were written independently by two separate examiners. Two independent raters then read the reports on each S and noted the degree of agreement between the two reports. The overall results showed very little agreement between the Color Test and the MMPI. Reasons for the poor rate of agreement are discussed.
Replied to Hays and Stacy's critique of an article by Holmes, Dungan and McLaughlin in which the validity of MMPI alcoholism scales was questioned. Hays and Stacy asserted that the original authors misinterpreted the results of the statistical analyses. The present article presents support for the original conclusions and comments on Hays and Stacy's reanalysis.
Fifty patients with closure difficulty on the Bender-Gestalt and 50 patients with edging tendencies on the Bender Gestalt were assessed for possible personality traits associated with those drawing styles. Patients with and without the drawing styles were compared using MMPI data. Patients who drew along the edge of the paper showed no significant difference in MMPI scores when compared to non-edgers. Patients with closure difficulty were significantly higher on Scale O of the MMPI than were the non-closure difficulty patients. The difference was not considered to be interpretatively important.
Studied the relationship between several Memory-For-Designs drawing styles and personality traits using a sample of psychiatric outpatients. Four MFD drawing styles were studied by comparing the MMPI scores of Ss who did or did not draw constricted figures, draw expanded figures, draw along the edges of the paper, or place the figures on the page in a disorganized manner. Contrary to previous work in this area, the present results showed a relationship between certain drawing styles and scores on the MMPI, i.e., certain drawing styles correlate with personality traits.
Although physicians play a major role in dealing with potentially suicidal individuals, little research has been conducted to assess physicians' knowledge of who may or may not present a suicidal risk. The authors in this article present data on the ability of 202 physicians to recognize well established signs of suicide potential. Physicians in 14 areas of medical specialization completed a 13-item, multiple-choice examination of components taken from a suicide potential rating scale. The results revealed that certain groups of physicians predictably scored highest (for example, psychiatrists) but that most physicians were equally knowledgeable about the signs studied.
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Assessed five alcoholism scales derived from the MMPI for their ability to classify accurately two groups of alcoholics (N = 120) and a group of nonalcoholic psychiatric patients (N = 60) in an inpatient treatment setting. The alcoholic group was divided into those who were self-committed and those who were court-committed. Depending on how the data were treated, only one, or none of the scales was accurate.
The relationship between figure size on the Draw-A-Person and depression was studied for depressed patients, non-depressed patients, and non-depressed hospital employees (30 males and 30 females in each group). All participants completed a figure drawing and a measure of depression, Beck's Inventory or the MMPI. No differences were found between any of the groups, that is, all groups drew figures of close to the same size. Figure size and depression were not related.
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Studied four separate samples to examine the relationship between personality traits and edging on the Memory-For-Designs test. In two samples, edgers and non-edgers were compared on their MMPI results; one sample used 16PF data; and one sample used the HSPQ. The results showed that while edging is not common, it is not related to any unique personality traits, when compared to non-edgers.
Data on constriction of figures in the Memory-For-Designs from a previous study were re-analyzed using protocols which exhibited very frequent reduction in size. High constrictors (13 to 15 constricted designs) were compared to moderate constrictors (6 to 8 constricted figures) and to low constrictors (0 to 2 constricted figures). Analysis indicated that high constrictors were significantly different from low constrictors on two 16 PF variables. These differences, however, were not considered to be clinically, i.e., interpretively, significant. Even with extreme constriction, these data are consistent with previous research.
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