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PubMed1976

Personality characteristics of high and low aggressive adolescents in residential treatment.

Variables related to aggression were explored in a population of psychiatrically disturbed male adolescents in a residential treatment setting. The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Daydreaming Questionaire, Byrne Repression-Sensitization Scale, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory were administered to high and low aggressive patients. Multivariate analyses of the data indicated that high aggressors were significantly lower in their social desirability needs and significantly higher in their daydreaming, hostile, attitudes and sensitization than were low aggressive patients. These findings were discussed relative to a greater understanding of aggression in emotionally disturbed adolescents and implications for treatment.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

A further study of response, set and the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI).

The aims of the investigation were to draw attention to systematic scale score discrepancies between Forms A and B of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), to suggest that these discrepancies might be mediated by acquiesence response set (ARS), and to provide reliability estimates for ARS and lie scale scores. Evidence relevant to all three intentions was obtained from a student group and a group of psychiatric patients. The predicted discrepancies between scale scores were obtained. The ARS measure derived from the E scale was found to be reliable, and ARS measures from both the E and L scales were found to obtain significantly different values across forms. Practical suggestions were made with regard to the utilization of an individual form of the EPI.

Deception↗
PubMed1977

19 Years later: a mental hygiene clinic revisited--a comparison of three methods to describe a clinic caseload.

This is a replication of a 1956 study that compared three ways to describe the case load of a mental hygiene clinic. The methods used were to follow-up of a cohort group, cases closed, and a survey of all active cases. In 1975, as compared to 1956, it was found that patients are more likely to be psychotic, to be receiving psychotropic drugs, and to stay in treatment much longer. Rate of improvement declined slightly. The number of patients increased by 166% and the annual number of patient visits increased by 84%, with about the same size staff. Some hypotheses for these changes are discussed.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1978

An exploratory study of the interaction between personality and psychopathology.

Presented an exploratory study that focused on the relationship between personality and psychopathology. A sample of 389 male veterans was evaluation and diagnostically categorized into four mental illness categories and one nonmental illness group. Each S was tested with the MMPI and the Differential Personality Questionnaire. Several analyses were performed to test two of Zubin's (1967) hypotheses about possible interactions between personality and psychopathology. Results are seen as suggestive that personality is neither independent nor interactive with psychopathology.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Factors in the rotation of reproduced figures.

Investigated the effectiveness of presenting some of the MPD designs on rotated backgrounds; examination was made of the incidence of a particular rotational error in the records of 246 psychiatric patients. This error, the reproduction of the square of the circle-square design in "square" instead of the correct "diamond" orientation, occurred very much more often when the background was rotated than when it was normal, which confirmed that the orientation of the background had a strong effect on the reproductions. The error was made significantly more often by Ss with brain damage than by those with functional disorders. The findings were discussed in relation to the concept of field-dependence.

Affective Symptoms↗
PubMed1979

Field dependence and extraversion neuroticism on an inpatient psychiatric service.

Compared relationship between field dependence (FD) and the scales of Neuroticism (N) and Extraversion (E) using paraprofessionals (N = 22), professionals (N = 42) and psychiatric inpatients (N = 35) to elucidate the high FD found among the psychiatric inpatients. Recent evidence contradicts Witkins' (1965) early view that as a group, psychiatric inpatients would show psychopathology at the extremes of the FD continuum. The N scale was chosen because it taps a narrow behavior band, the individual's vulnerability to break down under stress. The major hypothesis that FD and N would be functionally related was based on previous empirical findings (Cattell, 1955) and Seligman's (1975) theory of "learned helplessness." Similarly, it was expected that age and sex (i.e., being female) were related functionally to FD. The latter hypotheses were supported. The hypothesis that the profiles of inpatients, professionals and paraprofessionals would throw more light on the high FD found among inpatients was not supported. The relationship between FD and N was discussed in terms of Seligman's (1975) concept of learned helplessness.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Utility of the Faschingbauer abbreviated MMPI as a function of patient group and sex.

Assessed the utility of the 166-item FAM with medical and psychiatric patients. FAM items were extracted from MMPI data of 60 female and 45 male patients classified into pain and psychiatric patients based on suspected disorder and referral questions. Although all correlations between FAM and MMPI mean T-scores on all scales were highly significant, 54% of the means were significantly different. The number and the nature of the difference between FAM and MMPI group means and individual profile classifications varied as a function of patient subgroup and sex. Such subgroup delineation of FAM accuracy is discussed as necessary for decisions about appropriate clinical and research utilization.

Adult↗