Personality and Coping with Psychiatric Symptoms
- 29 January 1977
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 130 (1) , 29-31
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.130.1.29
Abstract
Summary: An attempt was made to extend and cross-validate Mayo's (1969) study of ‘normals with symptoms' using the new Personal Illness measures. Groups of psychiatric patients and symptom-free normals were matched with a ‘normals with symptoms' group for age and sex. The two symptom groups were similarly matched on the number of symptoms as assessed by the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. On the Personality Deviance Scales the ‘normals with symptoms' were found to be the most Extrapunitive group, the symptom-free normals had the lowest Intropunitive scores, whilst the patient group were the lowest scorers on Dominance.Keywords
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