Ranking Bellevue subtest scores for diagnostic purposesJastak, Joseph
doi: 10.1037/h0062221pmid: 13118006
An investigation of the validity of Wechsler's sign lists for diagnostic purposes. Conclusions: (1) The diagnostic signs hold up only when raw score means are used for purposes of comparisons. (2) Sign lists fit female patterns more closely than male patterns. (3) Wechsler's neurotic, schizophrenic, and organic patients are inadequately differentiated from each other either in the psychiatric diagnosis or in the test results, or both. (4) Patterns published in this study need checking on other groups of each diagnostic category to test reliability and validity of the ranks.
Sex differences and other aspects of young superior adult performance on the Wechsler-BellevueNorman, Ralph D.
doi: 10.1037/h0054110pmid: 13118007
Important sex differences and other characteristics discovered in a population of young adults with IQ's of 120 or better, as revealed through the Wechsler-Bellevue, include the following: (1) Females appeared to be more deteriorated than their age warranted. (2) Sex differences appear which "affect the clinical utility of the test, and which generally corroborate previous research." (3) Significant scatter patterns exist which are functions of sex and IQ level. (4) There were important discrepancies in item gradations of difficulty. (5) All subtests discriminate between Superior and Very Superior IQ groups, but not to the same degree.
The significance of artistic excellence in the judgment of adjustment inferred from human figure drawingsWhitmyre, John W.
doi: 10.1037/h0057902pmid: 13118009
"Human figure drawings were collected from psychiatric patients and "normal' veterans. Clinical psychologists ranked the drawings according to the level of personal adjustment which they felt was reflected in the drawings . . . and according to degree of artistic excellence." Drawings were also ranked by commercial artists for artistic merit. Results: (1) All evaluations were highly reliable. (2) Psychologists used artistic merits very much in evaluating "adjustment." (3) "Neither art nor adjustment ratings by artists or psychologists show any consistently significant relationship with the dichotomy psychiatric patient vs. nonpsychiatric subject." (4) Judgments of the psychologists did not show any consistent relationship to level of personal adjustment.
Personality factors in seizure states with reference to the Rosenzweig triadic hypothesisCanter, Francis M.
doi: 10.1037/h0059558pmid: 13118011
Two groups of seizure patients were compared: an "epileptic" group, whose seizures were symptoms of brain functioning, and a "psycholeptic" group, whose seizures were symptoms of psychological maladjustment. "In general, the results indicate that certain patterns of psychological reaction are more prevalent in seizure patients in whom no evidence of disturbed brain function can be found. The personality pattern of the psycholeptic patients is consistent with the theoretical pattern for hysterics. There is also tentative evidence that the psycholeptic group deviates from the normal with respect to the variables of repression and reaction to frustration, whereas the epileptic group does not appear to differ from the normal in these respects."
Research origin and construction of the I. P. A. T. Junior Personality QuizCattell, Raymond B.; Beloff, Halla
doi: 10.1037/h0054349pmid: 13118012
Describes the development of a personality questionnaire for use with 10 to 14 year-old boys and girls. The present test (Junior Personality Quiz) has 144 items, takes 30 minutes for the large majority of the children. "The external or social validity of this internally validated test remains to be investigated by use of the test in schools and clinics." The authors state that because the test deals with "so many demonstratedly independent dimensions of behavior" it should give better predictions than any "single, long, and reliable scale, because each factor brings new information."
Manifest anxiety changes concomitant with client-centered therapyGallagher, James J.
doi: 10.1037/h0061417pmid: 13118013
"An attempt was made to see if there were anxiety-stress changes, as measured by various MMPI anxiety scales, from pretherapy to post-therapy, in 42 college students who underwent client-centered therapy. Comparisons were also made between the change in stress measures from the pretherapy test, and the various therapy-success criterion measures . . . although all 4 measures showed a significant decrease in stress from pretherapy to post-therapy, 2 of the measures, the Taylor Anxiety Scale and the Winne Neuroticism Scale, showed the highest amount of agreement with the therapy-success measures."
A forced-choice form of the Taylor Anxiety ScaleHeineman, Charles E.
doi: 10.1037/h0062337pmid: 13118014
This article describes the construction and use of a forced-choice form of the Taylor Anxiety scale. The advantage of such a form is to "reduce the effects of possible tendencies by Ss to consider the social desirability of particular responses." An analysis of the data revealed that although the influence of social favorability was not entirely eliminated by the forced-choice technique, it at least can be "drastically reduced." 32 references.
A transposed factor analysis of paranoid schizophrenicsGuertin, Wilson H.; Zilaitis, Victor
doi: 10.1037/h0056342pmid: 13118015
A factor analysis of responses to 100 selected Minnesota Multiphasic items by patients previously diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics revealed a "large commonness" among these patients. Four personality types are suggested: "socially normal paranoid," "grandiose and delusional paranoid," "evasive and well-integrated paranoid," and the "sensitive, inadequate, and withdrawn type." In general, the results confirm the traditional use of the paranoid classification, but at least 2 of the types are different enough to deserve separate classificatory labels. These are the "socially normal well-integrated person" and the "grandiose delusional types."