Psychological test data from 69 patients were examined for personality correlates of Wechsler Digit Span performance. (Author)

This study was designed to determine whether alcoholics are more alienated, as measured by Dean's Social Alienation Scale, than a comparable group of normals and, in particular, to establish the degree to which these populations differ regarding the specific components of the alienation measure, i.e., normlessness, powerlessness, and social…

Butterfield found that internal Ss tended to make more constructive responses to frustration-type situations than did extrenal Ss. Therefore, this study predicted that internal Ss would rate themselves as more confident with regard to problem-solving abilities than would external Ss. (Author)

The present investigation explored further the relationship between distortions in self-perception of depression and psychological adjustment. It was hypothesized that the inability to perceive accurately the level or severity of depression, regardless of the direction of distortion, would be related to a greater degree of overall psychopathology.…

This study tested competing interpretations of IQ deficit in schizophrenic patients. One interpretation (concomitancy hypothesis) holds that IQ loss is a product of schizophrenic symptoms and is remedied as the symptoms remit. The second (prodromal hypothesis) holds that IQ deficit preceeds and facilitates the development of schizophrenic disorder…

The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)

Seventy patients who averaged 155 percent overweight and requested jejunioleal bypass surgery as a treatment intervention for morbid obesity were studied preoperatively for prominent psychological characteristics. (Author)

Since the life change questionnaire and the A scores (physiological response) purport to measure the level of stress that is being experienced, the degree of agreement between the two measures is of importance. The present investigation compares the results of a questionnaire (Modified Schedule of Recent Events) with scores of autonomic balance…

The current study attempted to confirm that depresses students had negative recall of their parents' behavior. It also enlisted a different population and different measurement techniques and attempted to establish cross-cultural validation for the results. (Author/RK)

Ratings of self and 15 significant others on four personality factors by 47 alcoholic and 90 nonalcoholic males were analyzed by means of step-wise regression analysis and multivariate analysis of covariance. (Author)

The purpose of this study is to test the validity of Wechsler's hypotheses about the adolescent sociopath when they are applied to the WISC. (Author)

Recognition memory is one of the few areas of cognition in schizophrenia in which deficit has not been found. Such a finding has important theoretical implications for the understanding of schizophrenia. This research presents a study of recognition in long-term episodic memory in schizophrenia in which previous findings of no deficit were…

Studies personality differences among prison inmates that could be attributed to the number of felony offenses and the length of incarceration. (Author/RK)

The position taken in this paper is that if a person were an actual user of a Rorschach percept, the clinical significance of the percept undoubtedly would be different from that of the non-user who had minimal interest in the percept. (Author)

This study compared more than 3400 MMPIs obtained from pschiatric in-patients in public mental health facilities with mental status and preadmission descriptor ratings to derive empirical correlates of profiles clustered primarily by two-point high codes. (Author)