Personality and Coping with Psychiatric Symptoms

An attempt was made to extend and cross-validate Mayo's (1969) study of ‘normals with symptoms' using the new Personal Illness measures. Groups of psychiatric patients and symptom-free normals were matched with a ‘normals with symptoms' group for age and sex. The two symptom groups we...

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Published in:British journal of psychiatry 1977-01, Vol.130 (1), p.29-31
Main Authors: Foulds, G. A., Bedford, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult
Dominance-Subordination
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control
Male
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Personality Inventory
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Summary:An attempt was made to extend and cross-validate Mayo's (1969) study of ‘normals with symptoms' using the new Personal Illness measures. Groups of psychiatric patients and symptom-free normals were matched with a ‘normals with symptoms' group for age and sex. The two symptom groups were similarly matched on the number of symptoms as assessed by the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. On the Personality Deviance Scales the ‘normals with symptoms' were found to be the most Extrapunitive group, the symptom-free normals had the lowest Intropunitive scores, whilst the patient group were the lowest scorers on Dominance.
ISSN:0007-1250
1472-1465
DOI:10.1192/bjp.130.1.29