The present study is a multivariate extension of two studies undertaken to identify and describe attitude patterns of clinical psychologists toward issues pertinent to professional training. (Author)

Compares spatial with nonspatial reasoning ability within the same patients to determine whether spatial reasoning deficits in schizophrenics are specific to spatial types of tasks or are indicative of generalized reasoning difficulties. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the factorial composition of responses to the Life Style Analysis (LSA) in two normal and four clinical groups. (Author)

Psychological test data from 69 patients were examined for personality correlates of Wechsler Digit Span performance. (Author)

Investigates the relationship between the mean age of psychotic veterans hospitalized for suicidal or nonsuicidal behavior and the presence or absence of childhood onychophagia. (Author/RK)

This study was designed to determine whether alcoholics are more alienated, as measured by Dean's Social Alienation Scale, than a comparable group of normals and, in particular, to establish the degree to which these populations differ regarding the specific components of the alienation measure, i.e., normlessness, powerlessness, and social…

Butterfield found that internal Ss tended to make more constructive responses to frustration-type situations than did extrenal Ss. Therefore, this study predicted that internal Ss would rate themselves as more confident with regard to problem-solving abilities than would external Ss. (Author)

This study examined two categories of stress as a possible factor in previously mixed findings with regard to sex differences. (Author)

The present investigation explored further the relationship between distortions in self-perception of depression and psychological adjustment. It was hypothesized that the inability to perceive accurately the level or severity of depression, regardless of the direction of distortion, would be related to a greater degree of overall psychopathology.…

This study tested competing interpretations of IQ deficit in schizophrenic patients. One interpretation (concomitancy hypothesis) holds that IQ loss is a product of schizophrenic symptoms and is remedied as the symptoms remit. The second (prodromal hypothesis) holds that IQ deficit preceeds and facilitates the development of schizophrenic disorder…

Compares suicidal and non-suicidal behavior in hospitalized psychiatric veterans with and without childhood onychophagia (fingernail biting). (Author/RK)

The effects of "good" and "poor" peer models on the task performance of 45 chronic schizophrenic males were investigated. The findings revealed that patients who viewed a good peer model did significantly better on a subsequent task then patients who viewed either a peer model or no model. (Editor)

The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)

Seventy patients who averaged 155 percent overweight and requested jejunioleal bypass surgery as a treatment intervention for morbid obesity were studied preoperatively for prominent psychological characteristics. (Author)

Since the life change questionnaire and the A scores (physiological response) purport to measure the level of stress that is being experienced, the degree of agreement between the two measures is of importance. The present investigation compares the results of a questionnaire (Modified Schedule of Recent Events) with scores of autonomic balance…