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A Validation Study Of A Picture-Preference Test Of Thought Disorder., Nina. Apanasiewicz
A Validation Study Of A Picture-Preference Test Of Thought Disorder., Nina. Apanasiewicz
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Recent writers (Johnston & Holzman, 1979; Rudzinski & Auld, 1980) have pointed out that most of the currently available measures of thought disorder are unsatisfactory for the following reasons: They measure only a limited range of thinking disturbances, and they are unduly influenced by factors irrelevant to thought disorder. In order to overcome these inadequacies, Rudzinski (1979) developed the Picture-Preference Test (PPT) of Thought Disorder. Initial research on the validity of the test was encouraging and thus prompted the present cross-validation study. Two versions of the PPT thought-disorder scale were used in the present study: the regular 31-item scale, and …
Defensiveness In Dream Recall In Response To A Provocative Day Residue., Sheila Anne. Clyne-Jackson
Defensiveness In Dream Recall In Response To A Provocative Day Residue., Sheila Anne. Clyne-Jackson
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The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect on dreams of either a neutral day residue, or a day residue which is evocative of psychosexual conflict. Sixty male subjects divided into two groups--frequent dream recallers and infrequent dream recallers--were exposed to one of the following stimuli: (a) a neutral picture, (b) a picture which is strongly evocative of psychosexual conflict, or (c) a picture which is similar to picture "b" but which has been modified in an effort to make it less evocative. Subjects were asked to free associate to the picture and their free associations were …
A Study Of The Effect Of Death Confrontation On Death Concern Variables., Frederick Ivan. Meek
A Study Of The Effect Of Death Confrontation On Death Concern Variables., Frederick Ivan. Meek
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The purposes of the present study were: (1) to determine relationships between psychometric death concern variables, (2) to determine if the use of a personal death fantasy exercise would significantly reduce death anxiety, (3) to ascertain the experimental effect of fantasy process variables, and, (4) to describe relationships with avoidance-confrontation continuum. Templer's (1970) Death Anxiety Scale, Ray and Najman's (1974) Death Acceptance, Thauberger's (1974) Avoidance of the Ontological Confrontation of death, and Morgan's (1975) Vivia, Death Transcendence and Meditative Awareness subtests were administered pre-, immediately following, and two weeks after subjects engaged in two visually imagined fantasy experiences. Experimental Treatment …
Social Network Characteristics, Social Support, And Compliance To A Chronic Hemodialysis Regimen., Peter L. Burgher
Social Network Characteristics, Social Support, And Compliance To A Chronic Hemodialysis Regimen., Peter L. Burgher
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Nonadherence to hemodialysis fluid restrictions is a particularly difficult and dangerous problem for chronic dialysis patients. Review of noncompliance studies suggests that enmeshment in a stable supportive family and peer network is predictive of improved compliance. The network model and mapping techniques, used to study how people adapt to different life stresses, provides a useful means to evaluate the relationship between support network characteristics and dialysis compliance. Forty chronic hemodialysis patients were recruited from three metropolitan dialysis units in southeastern Michigan. Noncompliance was defined as 3-month mean interdialysis weight gains one standard deviation above the population mean. Twenty noncompliant patients …