| Abstract: | Studied differences in patterns of cognitive appraisal and response to stress in a total of 19 male nonparanoid process schizophrenics and paranoid reactive schizophrenics. Paranoids evidenced greater heart-rate response to stress stimuli while rating the stress categories as less disturbing than did nonparanoid Ss. Comparison of autonomic measures and verbal ratings of the slides indicated that paranoids underrated their autonomic response to stress stimuli while nonparanoid Ss overrated it. Results suppport the clinical literature on defensive styles of the 2 groups. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
