Journal of Consulting Psychology

Taulbee, E. S.

doi: 10.1037/h0044354pmid: 13587713

"This study investigated the hypothesis that there are certain identifiable personality variables which are related to therapy prognosis. A group of neurotics who remained in treatment for 13 or more interviews and a group who terminated prior to the 13th interview were compared on the basis of certain Rorschach scoring categories and MMPI scales. Both of these groups were compared to a group of normal subjects on the Rorschach variables. As predicted, the continuers were less defensive, and more persistent, anxious, sensitive, and dependent than the attriters. They possessed an increased consciousness of feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, and depression and had better potential for self-appraisal, emotional responsiveness, and more of an introspective attitude."

Scott, E. M.

doi: 10.1037/h0042870pmid: 13587714

Eskey, A.; Friedman, I.

doi: 10.1037/h0047781pmid: 13587715

"Two hundred psychotic patients discharged as improved were rated on verbal activity, motor activity, and quality of thinking displayed at the time of hospital admission. Comparisons were made to determine whether differences in degree of overt symptomatology were associated with rapidity of improvement as measured by length of hospitalization. The results indicate that degree of activity is not associated with rapidity of improvement but that patients with more intact thought processes at the time of admission tend to be discharged more rapidly. The findings shed doubt upon the generalization that more extreme symptomatology responds more rapidly to treatment. Differences in viewing improvement in temporal and qualitative terms were discussed in reference to suggestions for further research."

Eastman, D.

doi: 10.1037/h0045569pmid: 13587716

"With a sample of 50 couples married more than two years it was shown that: Marital happiness is related to self acceptance, acceptance of others, and psychological status in both subjects and their mates; to self acceptance in both sexes, to acceptance of others probably only in wives, and to psychological status probably only in husbands. The relation of marital happiness to self acceptance, acceptance of others, and psychological status is affected in several other measurable ways by average psychological differences between the two sexes."

Kelleher, D.

doi: 10.1037/h0041248pmid: 13587717

Social desirability "played an insignificant role in item responses on the PPS."

Smith, G. M.

doi: 10.1037/h0042409pmid: 13587718

"Scores on six self-concept measures were obtained for each of 24 college men. These six measures were: discrepancy between "Self' and "Ideal Self,' discrepancy between "Self' and "Social Self,' discrepancy between "Social Self' and "Ideal Sel, "instability of Self,' "instability of Ideal Self,' and "instability of Social Self.' All six measures were found to be positively correlated with each other. Eleven of the 15 correlations were significant at the .05 level of confidence using a two-tailed test."

Beech, H. R.; Maxwell, A. E.

doi: 10.1037/h0043418pmid: 13587719

"Four measures of discrepancies in the reproduction of simple designs of drawing were taken for each individual in five groups: normal, neurotic, depressive, schizophrenic, and brain-damaged . . . . [The] technique of discriminant function analysis was applied to the data . . . . [The] differences between the groups on the canonical variate scores were not strikingly superior to those obtained on the measures before applying the statistical technique."

Rosenberg, B. G.; Altrocchi, J.

doi: 10.1037/h0046238pmid: 13587720

"The four-minus cutoff is recommended for clinical situations in that it provides a conservative estimate of impairement, and tends to separate organics from other patients with fewer nonorganics misclassified as organics."

Powers, W. T.; Hamlin, R. M.

doi: 10.1037/h0048615pmid: 13587721

"Rapaport's material concerning deviant verbalizations on the Rorschach test was analyzed by one of the authors, and 10 continua were isolated . . . . An analysis of the characteristics of these 10 continua showed that they could be combined into four large classes, namely, intellectual disorganization, deviant content, inappropriate increase or loss of distance, and affective response. Scoring scales were devised for each of the 10 continua . . . . The scoring reliability coefficients of all four classes proved to be significantly reliable, but only five of the ten continua proved to be significantly reliable."

Johnson, L. C.

doi: 10.1037/h0045849pmid: 13587722

"The effectiveness of the CET as a diagnostic tool independent of the Rorschach was evaluated by comparing the clinical scores J. V, E, and R received by [63] schizophrenics, [34] neurotics, and [27] sociopathic personality disorders. No difference between the neurotics and the sociopathic group was found. Only the V score significantly differentiated between the schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic groups . . . . Acute schizophrenics had lower V scores than chronic schizophrenics and the V scores of paranoid schizophrenics were not as low as other schizophrenics. The V score is felt to be useful in diagnosis, but its use as an indicator of the patient's control at the time of testing regardless of diagnosis may be more important. The E score added little information beyond that given by the J and V scores."