Compared two sets of variables (one known to reflect psychopathology and the other to reflect certain normal personality traits) to determine whether they overlapped in both normal and abnormal samples. Findings are taken as indicative that personality patterns remain contiguous with psychological symptomatology regardless of the presence or lack…

Attempted to provide a direct investigation of the nature and stress-reducing quality of complementary projection, a process by which an individual attributes causality for his or her own feelings, traits, or behaviors onto other people. (Author/RK)

Replicated a previous investigation that compared a global measure of life change events (the Schedule of Recent Experience) with a restricted negative measure (the Life Experience Survey) in association with self-reported anxiety and depressive symptomatology. The previous finding of the superiority of the negative events measure was not…

Performed a principal axes factor anlaysis on Mini-Mult item data obtained from 249 medical and psychiatric patients. Six factors were extracted. Nonoverlapping summative scales were constructed and their reliabilities evaluated. The scales were recommended for applications in which it is desirable to avoid excessive item overlap. (JAC)

Aims to explore the possible association between certain personality characteristics and suicidal inclination. Compares psychiatric patients with and without a suicidal history according to a number of selected of MMPI scales. (Author/RK)

In an attempt to extend the "nomological network" of the hopelessness dimension, this research examines the relationship between negative expectancies about the future and two theoretically relevant constructs: generalized expectancies for reinforcement, and depression. (Author/RK)

Explores more directly the alleged defensive interpretation of the L scale by relating it to another measure of defensiveness, viz, the denial scale (Dn) and to two other measures that presumably do not reflect defensiveness, viz, the MMPI Schizophrenia (Sc) and Hypochondriasis (Hs) scales. (Author/RK)

Examines, by use of Webb's automated telephone interview (SI), the relationship between the degree of interview matching of interviewer DOU (mean pause duration) and RTL (mean response latency) and therapist empathy, warmth and genuineness as rated by the interviewee. (Author/RK)

Advances the hypothesis that individuals who smoke tend to fantasize more than those who have stopped smoking or never smoked. (Author/RK)

Appplied formulae for estimating the validity of random short forms to Reynolds' data on six short forms of the Marlowe-Crowne. Results showed some, but not all, of the short forms considered by Reynolds were appreciably better than random. (JAC)

WAIS subtset standard scores, IQ scores, and factorial deviation quotients were correlated with Bender Gestalt recall scores for 111 vocational rehabilitation clients. Results found that the Bender recall task could not classify Ss as to general intelligence level with greater accuracy than could be obtained with the WAIS Vocabulary subtest alone.…

Fifty-one psychiatric inpatients were tested on a 36-item satisfaction scale before and after and after a reorganization at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center. Results showed that the involuntary relocation of chronic psychiatric patients to another institutional treatment environment causes few demonstrable effects. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the reliability of the findings of Ovenstone and Krietman (some completed suicides have attempted suicide previously, whereas other completed suicides have no such history) with a sample of completed suicides in the United States. (Author/RK)

Examines the relationship between perceived vulnerability to health problems and the repression-sensitization dimension. (Author/RK)

This study examined the dependence of 500 inpatient diagnoses on the results of standard psychological assessment procedures. (Author)