abstract：:Used a brief deep muscle relaxation procedure to reduce patient (N = 39) anxiety during a dental appointment. State anxiety decreased significantly for a relaxed (treated) group from the waiting room period to the actual contact with the dentist. This reduction in state anxiety was maintained for the duration of the d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Lamb DH,Strand KH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent literature has suggested that the traditional dichotomy of organic vs. functional classification for pain patients is unimportant in determining the role of personality variables in predicting treatment outcome. The present study examined the role of MMPI variables in predicting treatment outcome in pain patien...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Kuperman SK,Golden CJ,Blume HG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluated parental ratings on aggressiveness and social responsibility for 120 school-age children and a cross-validation sample of 67 children referred to a university-sponsored developmental evaluation center in association with 10 commonly used interdisciplinary diagnoses . Parental ratings consistently and signifi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： McMahon RC,Kunce JT,Salamak M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerned with the relationship between age and the Category Test, which is alleged to measure abstract reasoning deficits among brain-damaged patients. Scores on the Category Test from the Halstead-Reitan Battery were used. Sixty-two scores from brain-damaged patients and 417 from alcoholics were compared in terms of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Query WT

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales. Detailed nutritional and demographic information and MMPI profiles were obtained from 20 adult psychiatric inpatients, 10 adult psychiatric outpatients, and 20 adult normal...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Weinberg JC,Mandel HP,Miller GH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigated two problem areas: (a) difficulty in the diagnoses of some types of organic brain dysfunctions; and (b) lack of accuracy in the differentiation of patients with organic disorders from patients with nonorganic disorders. Hospitalized male Ss (N = 152) were selected by diagnoses to form one nonorganic and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Pennington BH,Peterson LP,Barker HR Jr

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult males (N = 56) who differed in sexual orientation and preference were administered a self-report inventory that concerned their memory of the adolescent period of life. Six factors were assessed: Body self-concept, body weight problems, sports activities, parental relationships, interpersonal self-concept, and g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Prytula RE,Wellford CD,DeMonbreun BG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined the importance of therapist-client agreement for therapy outcome in group therapy. Fifty-five clients comprised 12 groups conducted by 6 therapists. The study considered data in two phases. In the first an attempt was made to reduce clients' ambiguity about relationship aspects of therapy via a preparation fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Peake TH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothesized that the correlation between Inability to Abstract and Autism measures of schizophrenics would be larger after the effects of relevant personality variables were partialed out than before. The multiple correlations of these deficit measures with 15 of the Sixteen Personality Factor scales and a measure of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Watson CG,Burke M,Plemel D

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determined whether 16PF scale scores could contribute significantly to the prediction of a measure of fitness. Sixty-three firemen from a large metropolitan area in the Southeast were Ss. Factor M contributed significantly to the prediction of one measure of fitness (i.e., treadmill time). The assumption cited in the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Simono RB,Dawson G,Murphy H

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studied the correlations of alpha, beta and theta time densities with psychological and psychophysiological variables in a psychiatric population (N = 76). The correlations of the EEG variables with measures of adjustment were small and barely exceeded chance expectations. Alpha and beta were correlated positively wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Watson CG,Jacobs L,Herder J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined the possibility that college students' status on Whitehorn and Betz' (1954) A-B dimension would be related to their descriptions of the ideal psychiatric inpatient treatment setting. Sixty-one Ss completed the A-B scale, as well as Moos' (1974) Ward Atmosphere Scale-Ideal Form. Analysis demonstrated a statist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Woods DJ,Billig JM

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studied the relationship between attitudes toward the rights and proper roles of women in society and attitudes toward seeking professional help for emotional problems in a sample of 80 college students. Liberal attitudes toward women were associated with positive help-seeking attitudes in men and women, contrary to p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Zeldow PB,Greenberg RP

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administered the Low Back (Lb) Scale, a special derivative of the MMPI, to 20 patients with functional low back pain and 20 patients with verifiable organic evidence for their low back complaints. The Social Desirability Scale also was administered in order to assess the test-taking attitudes of the patients. The two ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Tsushima WT,Towne WS

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed study to determine the "active ingredients" in Lewinsohn's behavioral treatment for depression. Fifty-six men and women were screened for significant depression and were assigned to four experimental treatment groups: (1) an activities-increase group instructed to increment participation in reinforcing activi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Turner RW,Ward MF,Turner DJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performed detailed neuropsychological evaluations with 25 recently hospitalized schizophrenics in whom systematic neurologic workups had failed to reveal CNS disease. Efforts were made to minimize possible effects of drug-induced extrapyramidal symptoms on test performance. Although the schizophrenics showed some neur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Heaton RK,Vogt AT,Hoehn MM,Lewis JA,Crowley TJ,Stallings MA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follows up an earlier investigation in which demographic and clinical characteristics of psychiatric patients were used to predict readmission within 3 months of discharge. In the initial study, stepwise multiple regression analysis identified six variables as the optimal set of predictors for readmission within 3 mon...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Munley PH,Hyer LA

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MMPI profiles of 545 psychiatric inpatients and 560 incarcerated offenders were separated sequentially into normal, sociopathic, neurotic and psychotic groups by means of Goldberg's profile classification rules. Patient-prisoner differences in both rates of classification and profile patterns of groups within diagnost...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Holland TR,Watson CG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared the MMPI profiles of 23 randomly selected fee-paying clients (FP group) of an out-patient psychiatry clinic to those of 23 clients who left unpaid bills (NFP group). All Ss had been terminated at least 2 months. No differences between groups were found on age, education, income, fee level, number of therapy s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Brown JB,Dunbar PW

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth patterns of non-aboriginal, first admission, Western Australian psychiatric patients born between 1920 and 1950 were compared statistically with those of the general population. Three I. C. D. categories were examined: schizophrenia, anxiety neurosis, and depressive neurosis. For both categories of neurosis no d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Syme GJ,Illingworth DJ

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined trait anxiety in three groups of Israeli physical education students (N=251): competitors in individual sports, in team sports, and noncompetitors. The measure was the Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene Trait Anxiety Scale (1970). Both groups of competitive athletes were lower in trait anxiety than noncompetit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Tenenbaum G,Milgram RM

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined the relationship between conceptual systems and preferences for behavioral or client-centered approaches to therapy. One hundred and forty college students were administered measures of their conceptual systems and of their therapy preferences; the latter included descriptions of the two therapies. Two weeks ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Knudson ML,Carskadon TG

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessed moral reasoning of 20 male addict patients and 17 nonprofessional male hospital employees by Kohlberg's methods. The mean level of moral reasoning of the drug addict group (2.97) was not found to differ significantly from that of the nonaddict comparison group (2.88). Furthermore, moral reasoning in addicts w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Alterman AI,Druley KA,Connolly R,Bush D

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 Ss, which consisted of five subgroups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. The factorial data were analyzed in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Pishkin V,Thorne FC

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports the results of preliminary work with the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. It was predicted that treatment motivation and treatment success would be related to the dimension of locus of control. Independent physiotherapist's ratings confirmed the first hypothesis, but not the s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Finlayson MA,Rourke BP

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Disruptive Behavior Scale, a 26-item behavioral checklist, provides an objective measure of socially unacceptable public secondary school behavior and may prove to be of value in determining public school exit and reentry plans for disruptive adolescents. The checklist may be completed in 15-25 minutes and does no...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Mendelsohn M,Erdwins C

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined the effects of a training program for counselors and therapists based upon configurations of (a) systematic human relations training; (b) cognitive restructuring of counselor beliefs; and (c) systematic performance feedback. Criterion measures consisted of post vs. pre-gain scores on selected scales of the Pe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Tosi DJ,Eshbaugh DM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examined split-half reliabilities, retest reliabilities, and stability of the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) (Comrey, 1970) for a Navy sample of 200 young drug abusers tested at the beginning and end of rehabilitation in a no-feedback, compulsory participation setting. The pre-rehabilitation split-half reliabilities ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Wilcox WW,Wenger WK

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equations are provided for the calculation of age-corrected standard scores with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 3 for the Mental Control, Logical Memory, Visual Reproduction, and Associate Learning subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale. Use of the standard scores is expected to facilitate intersubtest compar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Osborne D,Davis LJ Jr

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Threatened Ss in five stress groups with electric shock, while Ss in a sixth group were not threatened. In one of the stress groups Ss were encouraged to project causality for their feelings that resulted from the threat of shock to the E instead of to the shock, while Ss in the remaining stress groups were not encour...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Burish TG,Houston BK,Bloom LJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigated the effects of unilateral left (UL), unilateral right (UR), and bilateral (B) ECT on the performance of right-handed male patients on the Wechsler Memory Scale and two tests of the Williams battery, which provided eight independent measures of verbal memory and two of visual-spatial memory. Patients were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Jackson B

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determined whether individuals who adapted well or poorly to the loss of their vision could be differentiated on the basis of the Cattell 16PF. Well adjusted individuals were defined as those who displayed minimal depression and high social independence, while poorly adjusted individuals were highly depressed and soci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Greenough TJ,Keegan DL,Ash DG

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred forty-two female Ss divided into repressors and sensitizers by their median score on the R-S scale received either a favorable or an unfavorable evaluation of themselves, both discrepant at a similar degree from their own self-evaluation. Sensitizers, in comparison to repressors, exhibited greater adoption...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Shavit H,Shouval R

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the use of the MMPI to discriminate between two groups of hotline volunteers: those who after training would become effective interviewers and those who would not. Effective interviewers were defined as those who emitted 40% or more good responses when they were responding to a crisis ca...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Evans DR

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of reading emotionally loaded statements on behavioral tasks and physiological measures were investigated. Statements were constructed to arouse elation, depression, or neutrality. Ss were both pre- and posttested on Writing Speed, Reaction Time, Decision Time, and Spontaneous Verbalizations. Base rates we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Matheny KB,Blue FR

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigated auditory word discrimination skill in children diagnosed as having minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), a heretofore unexplored topic in the study of MBD. A lack of auditory discrimination skill seems relevant to learning deficiency in language acquisition, a typical sign of MBD. The present study tested the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Parr VE

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective assessment of thought disorder in schizophrenia is problemmatic in clinical psychology. Recently an individually administered instrument (WIST) was introduced as a brief, objective, and quantitative measure of schizophrenic thought processes. Possible shortcomings of the WIST are noted; experimental find...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Klingler DE,Johnson JH,Williams TA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature indicates inconsistent results when MMPI differences between black Ss and white Ss were investigated. In general, most studies found that blacks responded in a more pathological direction. However, previous studies can be criticized because they have used students, prisoners, and hospital patients as Ss...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： King HF,Carroll JL,Fuller GB

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical"sociocybernetic" systems analysis model was tested empirically. Two independent groups completed a questionnaire that described their reactions to four hypothetical interpersonal situations. Half of the persons in each group described their reactions to a friend and used Likert scales to rate the unfavor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Kunce HW,Kunce JT

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to identify juvenile delinquent boys who had low social self-concepts as measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) and to enhance their self-concepts through a program of photographic feedback of successful social interactions. A total of 30 Ss engaged in social interactions each week...

journal_title：Journal of clinical psychology

authors： Fryrear JL,Nuell LR,White P

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00