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)

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)

This study was undertaken to test the validity of Neuringer and Lettieri's hypothesis (suicide as a result of a life style versus suicide as an acute reaction to problem situations) about the relationship between suicidal behavior, state and cognitive style. (Author/RK)

To determine the effect of chronic marihuana smoking on cognitive functions, personality traits, and social values, a group of heavy marihuana smokers was compared with a matched control group. (Author)

Evaluates the effects of Zen meditation on personality and values, casts serious doubts on certain studies that report astonishingly positive results after only a few weeks of meditation, and offers some suggestions to improve research methodology with regard to a most important contemporary phenomenon. (Author/RK)

Attempts to reevaluate Beall and Panton's MMPI escape scale on what presumably would be a more appropriate escapee sample than that used in previous studies. This would help to determine whether a revision of this escape scale should be undertaken. (Author/RK)

Examines the differences between first and multiple criminal offenders as measured by personality testing. Uses one regular scale of the MMPI and five additional scales determined to be useful in correctional classification and diagnostic services. (Author/RK)

The validity of the Controlled Repression-Sensitization scale as an index of intellectualizing and repressive defenses was examined by a measure of affect cognition, which assesses the level of conceptualization and articulation of feelings in Ss' TAT stories. (Author/RK)

Investigates the locus of control expectancies and defensive styles of a group of Ss who might be expected to be overly internal, i. e., individuals with psychomatic disorders. (Author/RK)

The goal of the study described here was to learn more about dream content in patients who had recovered from serious depression. The question was asked whether these formerly depressed patients still showed depressive traits in their nocturnal dreams, even though their daytime behavior and mood now approached entirely normal levels. (Author)

The present investigation attempts to compare four formal systematic approaches (loose associations, autism, loss of ego boundaries, and delusions) to the diagnosis of schizophrenia with the traditional, more informal hospital procedures typically used in psychiatric inpatient settings. (Author/RK)

This research attempted to find the causal relation between mood and level of reinforcement. An effort was made to learn what mood change might occur if depressed subjects increased their levels of participation in reinforcing activities. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to compare the utility of model characteristics of coping, mastery, and positive affect behaviors in modifying psychiatric patients' anxiety and performance in a simulated job interview. (Author)

Four psychological theories of paranoid phenomena, termed the shame-humiliation, homosexual, hostility, and homeostatic theories, are compared for their explanatory power. Shame-humiliation theory is considered prefereable because of its greater explanatory range and its ability to include the others as special cases. (Editor)