NOTE OF SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCORES AND EDWARDS' PREDICTION EQUATION.

IT IS SHOWN THAT THE PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION BETWEEN ACTUAL AND PREDICTED SCORES AND BETWEEN ACTUAL AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE SCORES ARE IDENTITIES. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDY OF THE MANIFEST ANXIETY, EXTRAVERSION, AND REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION SCALES.

THE MA, EXTRAVERSION (E), REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION (R-S), AND 13 OTHER PERSONALITY SCALES WERE GIVEN TO 226 SS TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH MA SCORES ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INFLUENCE OF EXTRAVERSION AND TO EXPLORE THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE R-S SCALE ASSESSES ATTRIBUTES SIMILAR TO THOSE MEASURED BY THE MA AND E SCALES. FROM THE RESULTS OF A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE 16 VARIABLES IT IS CONCLUDED THAT: SCORES ON THE MA AND R-S SCALES ARE ALMOST TOTALLY INDEPENDENT OF EXTRAVERSION; THE MA AND R-S SCALES ARE PRACTICALLY IDENTICAL IN PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING; SCORES ON BOTH THESE SCALES ARE LARGELY DETERMINED BY 2 BIPOLAR, ORTHOGONAL TRAITS-DEFENSIVENESS AND EMOTIONALITY. (27 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

RELATIONSHIP OF REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION TO ADJUSTMENT STATUS, SOCIAL DESIRABILITY, AND ACQUIESCENCE RESPONSE SET.

ATTEMPTED TO CLARIFY THE RELATIONSHIP OF REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION TO ADJUSTMENT STATUS, SOCIAL DESIRABILITY, AND ACQUIESCENCE RESPONSE SET. SS WERE 83 HOSPITALIZED MALE MEDICAL/SURGICAL PATIENTS CLASSIFIED AS ADJUSTED AND 78 HOSPITALIZED MALE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS CLASSIFIED AS MALADJUSTED. THE DEFENSIVE STYLE OF REPRESSION OCCURRED WITH SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER FREQUENCY IN THE ADJUSTED POPULATION, WHILE THE DEFENSIVE STYLE OF SENSITIZATION OCCURRED WITH SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER FREQUENCY IN THE MALADJUSTED POPULATION. THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION DIMENSION AND BOTH SOCIAL DESIRABILITY AND ACQUIESCENCE RESPONSE SET. HOWEVER, THE CORRELATIONS WERE LOW ENOUGH TO SUGGEST THAT THE REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION DIMENSION IS TAPPING SOMETHING NOT MEASURED BY THE OTHER 2 VARIABLES. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

RESPONSE TENDENCIES IN THE SVIB: THE POPULAR, THE RARE, AND THE SOCIALLY DESIRABLE.

A NUMBER OF RESPONSE SETS- POPULAR, RARE, SOCIALLY DESIRABLE, LIKING, AND INDIFFERENCE-WERE EXAMINED FOR THEIR CORRELATIONS WITH EACH OTHER AND PERSONALITY SOCIAL DESIRABILITY (SD), AND FOR THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE SCALES OF THE SVIB-M. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE SCALE OF SD FORMED FROM PERSONALITY ITEMS IS INDEPENDENT OF SOCIALLY DESIRABLE INTEREST SCALES, AND THAT THE LATTER VARY MORE FREELY FROM ITEM PROBABILITY OF ENDORSEMENT. CERTAIN OF THE SCALES FOR WHICH THE SVIB IS SCORED VARY FAIRLY DIRECTLY WITH 1 OR MORE RESPONSE TENDENCIES. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FINDINGS FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE PROFILE SHEET IS DISCUSSED. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

PERSONALITY CORRELATES OF FREE-ASSOCIATIVE SEX RESPONSES TO DOUBLE-ENTENDRE WORDS.

SEX RELATED RESPONSES GIVEN IN FREE ASSOCIATION TO DOUBLE-ENTENDRE WORDS WERE RELATED TO THE PERSONALITY VARIABLES OF SEX GUILT, NEED FOR HETEROSEXUALITY, AND THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE SET. TESTING WAS CONDUCTED INDIVIDUALLY. VARIABLES OF SEX GUILT, SEXUAL MOTIVE STRENGTH, AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE TENDENCY WERE MEASURED RESPECTIVELY BY THE MOSHER FORCED-CHOICE GUILT SCALE, THE EPPS, AND THE MARLOW-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE. RESULTS INDICATED A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEED FOR HETEROSEXUALITY AND ASSOCIATIVE SEXUAL RESPONSES, AND A NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEX GUILT AND SEXUAL RESPONSIVITY. CONTRARY TO PREDICTION, ASSOCIATIVE SEXUAL RESPONSES WERE UNRELATED TO THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE TENDENCY. DATA ALSO SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE RELATION BETWEEN SEX GUILT AND SEXUAL NEED STRENGTH, AND A LOW POSITIVE RELATION BETWEEN SEX GUILT AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY.

SEVERAL INVESTIGATIONS INDICATE THAT, FOR THE AVERAGE S, ENDORSEMENT OF PERSONALITY INVENTORY ITEMS HAS ONLY A LOW TO MODERATE CORRELATION WITH SOCIAL DESIRABILITY (SD), UNLIKE THE CASE WHEN PROBABILITY OF ENDORSEMENT BY A GROUP IS RELATED TO DESIRABILITY. THESE STUDIES HAVE USED POINT-BISERIAL CORRELATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE PRODUCT-MOMENT COEFFICIENT FOR THE GROUP. WHEN A SINGLE S'S RESPONSES ARE ANALYZED IN A WAY THAT PERMITS ESTIMATION OF PROBABILITY OF ENDORSEMENT, THE PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION BETWEEN THIS PROBABILITY AND SD TYPICALLY IS HIGH, APPROACHING MUCH CLOSER TO THE GROUP VALUE. HIGH AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL CORRELATION BETWEEN ENDORSEMENT AND DESIRABILITY DOES NOT PREVENT A DIAGNOSTIC SCALE FROM DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN DISPARATE GROUPS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

ON ESTIMATING PSYCHOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS: SOCIAL DESIRABILITY AND SELF-REPORT.

DISCUSSES THE ISSUE OF ESTIMATING THE MAGNITUDES OF RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES. THE THESIS ADVANCED IS THAT THE PROCEDURES TYPICALLY USED TO ESTIMATE SUCH RELATIONSHIPS PROVIDE ANSWERS TO ONLY 1 OF SEVERAL VARIANTS OF THE GENERAL RELATIONAL QUESTION, THAT OTHER VARIANTS ARE OFTEN OF EQUAL OR GREATER PSYCHOLOGICAL INTEREST, AND THAT THE DATA AVAILABLE FROM THE USUAL KINDS OF RELATIONAL ESTIMATION STUDIES CAN BE ANALYZED TO PROVIDE SEPARATE ANSWERS TO EACH POSSIBLE VARIANT OF THE GENERAL QUESTION. DATA FROM 5 STUDIES OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL DESIRABILITY JUDGMENTS AND PERSONALITY SELF-REPORTS ARE PRESENTED TO ILLUSTRATE AND SUPPORT THE ARGUMENT. EXTENSIONS OF THE ARGUMENT TO OTHER AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ARE SUGGESTED. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

DEFENSIVENESS AND NEED FOR APPROVAL.

NEED FOR APPROVAL (N APP) AND EXPECTANCY (EXP) OF APPROVAL VS. DISAPPROVAL WERE MANIPULATED UNDER HIGH- AND LOW-CONSEQUENCES (CON) CONDITIONS (IN A 3 * 2 * 2 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE DESIGN) TO DETERMINE THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEFENSIVENESS (DEF). THE 3 N APP LEVELS WERE OBTAINED BY TRICHOTOMIZING SCORES ON THE MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; EXP WAS MANIPULATED BY PROVIDING SS WITH EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE VERBAL REINFORCEMENT DURING AN INTERVIEW; CON CONSISTED OF E POSING AS A THREATENING AUTHORITY FIGURE TO 30 SS AND AS A STUDENT TO THE REMAINING 30. 3 SEPARATE DEPENDENT-VARIABLE MEASURES WERE USED: THE K SCALE, GOUGH'S DEF SCALE, AND THE ROTTER INCOMPLETE SENTENCES BLANK. IT WAS PREDICTED THAT DEF WOULD INCREASE AS A FUNCTION OF N APP, EXP OF DISAPPROVAL, AND HIGH CON. HOWEVER, SS BECAME MORE DEFENSIVE ONLY UNDER THE HIGH CON CONDITION (P     

INFLUENCE OF TEST-TAKING ATTITUDES ON PERSONALITY INVENTORY SCORES.

THE MMPI AND CROWNE-MARLOWE SCALES WERE ADMINISTERED TO 50 PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS WHO WERE GROUPED BY LEVELS OF MOTIVATION FOR DISCHARGE AND THEN RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO 1 OF 2 TESTING CONDITIONS. FOR THE "DEFENSIVE" CONDITION, THE PATIENTS WERE TOLD THAT THE TESTS WOULD DETERMINE THEIR READINESS FOR DISCHARGE; FOR THE "ROUTINE" CONDITION, THEY WERE ASSURED THAT THE TEST RESULTS WOULD NOT AFFECT THEIR DISCHARGE DATE. THE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE REVEALED SIGNIFICANT MAIN EFFECTS FOR THE CONDITIONS OF TESTING AND LEVELS OF MOTIVATION ON SEVERAL OF THE STANDARD AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALES. FROM AN ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION EFFECTS, IT IS CONCLUDED THAT SS ARE MORE LIKELY TO DISSIMULATE WHEN THE TESTING IS PERCEIVED AS A POTENTIAL BARRIER TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THEIR IMMEDIATE GOALS. (2 P. REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

MEASUREMENT OF "UNTESTABLE" AUTISTIC CHILDREN.

IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT RELIABLE AND VALID PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATIONS OF YOUNG AUTISTIC CHILDREN ARE POSSIBLE WITH MEASUREMENTS AT APPROPRIATELY LOW DEVELOPMENTAL LEVELS. A MODIFIED 20-MIN INFANT TEST WAS ADMINISTERED AND READMINISTERED TO 14 5-YR-OLD AUTISTIC CHILDREN. INFANT TEST SCORES WERE CORRELATED WITH INDEPENDENT CLINICAL JUDGMENTS AND SOCIAL AGES AS DETERMINED BY THE VINELAND SOCIAL MATURITY SCALE. A TEST-RETEST R OF .93 AND ITEM ANALYSES DEMONSTRATED HIGH RELIABILITY. 4 OF 5 CORRELATIONS WITH VALIDATING CRITERIA WERE HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT AUTISTIC CHILDREN (1) ARE NOT PSYCHOMETRICALLY UNTESTABLE, AND (2) MAY DIFFER FROM OTHER SEVERELY COGNITIVELY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN PRIMARILY BY VIRTUE OF HAVING FEWER MOTOR DISABILITIES. (22 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERSONALITY INVENTORIES: THE 16 PF, THE MMPI, AND THE MPI.

ADMINISTERED THE 16 PF, THE MPI, AND THE MMPI TO 267 AIRMEN. A FACTOR ANALYSIS WAS CARRIED OUT ON THE 16 PF SCALES, AND ESTIMATED CORRELATIONS OF MPI AND MMPI SCALES WITH THE 16 PF FACTORS WERE OBTAINED. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE 16 PF EXTRAVERSION FACTOR AND THE MPI EXTRAVERSION SCALE WERE IDENTICAL FOR MOST PURPOSES, BUT THAT THE 16 PF ANXIETY FACTOR AND THE MPI NEUROTICISM SCALE SHOWED CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES. FINDINGS CONCERNING THE MMPI CLINICAL SCALES, THE 16 PF FACTORS, AND THE MPI SCALES ARE DISCUSSED. (17 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL HISTORY FACTORS AND PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS.

CONSECUTIVELY ADMITTED, NONGERIATRIC PATIENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS WERE SELECTED FOR STUDY IF THEY HAD A VALID MMPI TAKEN WITHIN 14 DAYS OF ADMISSION TO A NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, AND AN M-B HISTORY RECORD COMPLETED BY THEIR NEAREST RELATIVE. DATA ON 120 PATIENTS WERE ANALYZED BY COMPUTING PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE 7 HISTORY THEMES AND 13 MMPI SCALES AND BY CANONICAL CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE 2 SETS OF DATA. THE RESULTS OF BOTH ANALYSES ARE SEEN AS SUPPORTING THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE ARE RELATIONS BETWEEN CERTAIN ASPECTS OF A PATIENT'S SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE SYMPTOMS REPORTED ON ADMISSION TO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

ITEM AMBIGUITY AND ITEM DISCRIMINATION IN THE MMPI.

EVALUATED 2 CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF ITEM AMBIGUITY WITH RESPECT TO THE DISCRIMINATION POWER AND RESPONSE DIRECTION OF MMPI ITEMS. INTERPRETIVE AMBIGUITY RATINGS AND RESPONSE AMBIGUITY VALUES WERE OBTAINED ON THE ITEMS IN ORDER TO DIVIDE THEM INTO GROUPS BY AMBIGUITY CHARACTERISTICS. A CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS INDICATED THE PRESENCE OF A LOW POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 2 MEASURES. THE ITEMS WERE ANALYZED WITH RESPECT TO THE NUMBER OF SCALES ON WHICH THEY ARE KEYED AND IN TERMS OF THEIR VARIABILITY IN RESPONSE DIRECTION. IT WAS EXPECTED THAT ITEMS HIGH IN INTERPRETIVE AMBIGUITY AND LOW IN RESPONSE AMBIGUITY WOULD HAVE GREATER DISCRIMINATION POWER AND WOULD BE MORE VARIABLE IN KEYED RESPONSE DIRECTION. BOTH EXPECTATIONS WERE CONFIRMED. THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INTERPRETIVE AND RESPONSE AMBIGUITY IS USEFUL TO CONSIDER IN ITEM-ANALYSIS PROCEDURES. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

RELATION OF SUCKING STRENGTH TO PERSONALITY VARIABLES.

ATTEMPTED TO DEMONSTRATE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCKING STRENGTH IN NORMAL ADULTS AND PERSONALITY VARIABLES. TESTS OF SUCKING STRENGTH, CONTROL MEASURES OF MANUAL STRENGTH AND VITAL CAPACITY, AND MMPI QUESTIONNAIRES WERE GIVEN TO 44 MEN AND 33 WOMEN. MEN AND WOMEN BOTH HAD SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SUCKING AND WELSH'S R DIMENSION, AFTER AGE CORRECTION. MALES ALSO SHOWED POSITIVE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SUCKING AND THE PHYSICAL TESTS OF MANUAL STRENGTH AND VITAL CAPACITY. FOR WOMEN, HOWEVER, SUCKING WAS RELATED TO SEVERAL PERSONALITY VARIABLES BUT NOT TO THE PHYSICAL TESTS. THIS SEX DIFFERENCE IN CORRELATIONAL PATTERN SUGGESTS THAT DIFFERENCES IN SUCKING STRENGTH ARE DETERMINED MORE BY PERSONALITY VARIABLES IN WOMEN AND MORE PHYSICAL STRENGTH VARIABLES IN MEN. IT IT IS ASSUMED THAT REPRESSION MAY STEM FROM UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS ABOUT ORAL NEEDS, THEN THE DATA ARE COMPATIBLE WITH THE IDEA THAT THE SUCKING TESTS REFLECT SIMILAR CONFLICTS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

ACQUIESCENCE AND THE F SCALE.

ANALYSIS OF CALIFORNIA F SCALE REVERSAL STUDIES SHOWED THAT CONTENT-INCONSISTENT RESPONSES TO ORIGINAL AND REVERSED ITEMS HAVE BEEN INTERPRETED AS EVIDENCE OF ACQUIESCENCE, WHEN THEY MAY HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY AN UNCONTROLLED ATTRIBUTE OF THE REVERSED ITEMS: THE DISPLACEMENT OF THEIR NEUTRAL POINTS RELATIVE TO THE ORIGINAL ITEMS. THIS INTERPRETATION WAS TESTED WITH DATA FROM SEVERAL SAMPLES RESPONDING TO ORIGINAL AND 2 SETS OF REVERSED ITEMS, AND ANOTHER SAMPLE USED TO SCALE THE DEGREE OF OPPOSITION WITHIN ITEM PAIRS. DOUBLE AGREEMENT WAS SHOWN TO BE A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND REVERSED ITEMS. THE APPARENT INCONSISTENCY OF SS WAS NOT PRODUCED BY ACQUIESCENCE, BUT WAS IMPOSED ON THEM BY THE REVERSED ITEMS, AND THUS IS IRRELEVANT TO THE ACQUISCENCE HYPOTHESIS. NO EVIDENCE FOR ACQUIESCENCE WAS FOUND IN ADDITIONAL ANALYSES OF RESPONSES TO THE ORIGINAL F SCALE. (47 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND THE ORIENTATION INVENTORY: A REVIEW.

REVIEWS RESEARCH BETWEEN 1959 AND 1967 RELATING ORIENTATION INVENTORY (ORI) SCORES TO OTHER SELF-REPORTS AND TO PERFORMANCE IN CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS. ALTHOUGH MANY OF THE STUDIES ARE BASED ON SMALL SAMPLES AND ORI SCORES ARE RELATIVELY LOW IN RETEST RELIABILITY, THE OVERALL PATTERNS OF RESULTS SUGGEST THE UTILITY OF ASSESSING ORIENTATION AS A WAY OF INCREASING UNDERSTANDING OF PERFORMANCE IN A VARIETY OF SOCIAL SITUATIONS. IN MANY SUCH SITUATIONS, THE GREATEST SOURCE OF VARIANCE MAY BE THE INTERACTION OF INDIVIDUAL ORIENTATION AND THE NATURE OF THE TASK. WHAT IS PUNISHING FOR THE SELF-ORIENTED MAY BE OF NO CONSEQUENCE TO THE INTERACTION-ORIENTED AND POSITIVELY REINFORCING TO THE TASK-ORIENTED. (3 P. REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

VALIDITY OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF WAIS, WISC, AND WPPSI SHORT FORMS.

DATA FROM THE WAIS, WISC, AND WECHSLER PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE STANDARDIZATION SAMPLES WERE USED TO ASSESS THE VALIDITY OF SHORT FORMS THAT REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ITEMS WITHIN SUBTESTS, RATHER THAN THE NUMBER OF SUBTESTS. A STATISTICAL CORRECTION WAS MADE FOR THE BIAS INTRODUCED BY RESCORING THE ORIGINAL SCALES TO OBTAIN SCORES ON THE SHORT FORMS. THE NEW APPROACH APPEARS TO PROVIDE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY ESTIMATES OF VERBAL AND PERFORMANCE IQS, AS WELL AS OF FULL SCALE IQS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

PREDICTION OF PATHOLOGY FROM MAKE-A-PICTURE STORY (MAPS) TEST FIGURES.

INVESTIGATED HOW RELIABLY AND VALIDLY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS COULD EVALUATE THE PATHOLOGY STIMULUS VALUE OF THE MAKE-A-PICTURE STORY (MAPS) TEST FIGURES. 4 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS RATED THE 67 MAPS FIGURES ON 3 MAPS BACKGROUNDS IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH PATHOLOGY WOULD BE INDICATED BY THE USE OF THE FIGURE ON A PARTICULAR BACKGROUND. PATHOLOGY INDICATION (PI) SCORES WERE CALCULATED FOR ALL THE RELIABLY RATED FIGURES. THESE RATINGS WERE THEN COMPARED TO THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCES OF PATIENTS OF VARIOUS LEVELS OF PATHOLOGY. THE DATA INDICATE THAT THERE WAS LITTLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PSYCHOLOGISTS' A PRIORI PI SCORES OF THE MAPS TEST FIGURES AND THE ACTUAL USE OF FIGURES BY THE PATIENTS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

IMPLICATIONS OF THE DECENTERING CONCEPT FOR THE STRUCTURING OF PROJECTIVE CONTENT.

THE ROLE-TAKING TASK (RTT) REQUIRES THE S TO MAKE UP AN INITIAL TAT STORY AND THEN TO RETELL THIS STORY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF EACH OF THE TAT FIGURES. EVALUATED THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INITIAL STORY AND THE ADEQUACY OF SUBSEQUENT ROLE-TAKING. IT WAS FOUND IN EXP. I THAT THE MORE THE S PORTRAYS RECIPROCAL SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE INITIAL STORY, THE BETTER ROLE-TAKING IS COORDINATED FOR THE TAT FIGURES. EXP. II EVALUATED ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP. SS TOOK ROLES BASED ON THEIR OWN INITIAL STORIES, AND ALSO ON THE INITIAL STORIES PRODUCED BY OTHERS. RESULTS SUPPORTED THE POSITION THAT THE EMPIRICAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INITIAL STORY PERFORMANCE AND ROLE-TAKING IS A FUNCTION OF A COMMON DIMENSION OF DECENTERING ACTIVITY RATHER THAN A FUNCTION OF THE STIMULUS PROPERTIES PER SE OF THE INITIAL STORY. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

VALIDATIONAL STUDY OF THE SELF-REPORT SCALE FOR PROCESS-REACTIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA.

THE SELF-REPORT SCALE DEVELOPED BY ULLMANN AND GIOVANNONI TO MEASURE PROCESS-REACTIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA WAS CORRELATED WITH RATINGS DERIVED FROM THE PREMORBID SUBSCALE OF THE PHILLIPS PROGNOSTIC RATING SCALE. 2 SAMPLES TOTALING 91 MALE SCHIZOPHRENICS WERE USED. CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE 2 SCALES WERE -.75 AND -.58 FOR THE 2 SAMPLES. THESE CORRELATIONS SUPPORT THE USE OF THE SELF-REPORT SCALE AS A MEANS OF PLACING SCHIZOPHRENICS ALONG THE PROCESS-REACTIVE CONTINUUM. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)