Attitudes of schizophrenics and normals toward success and failure.

McReynolds, Paul; Guevara, Carlos

doi:10.1037/h0020102

Cited by 27 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…I n addition to a characteristic gender identity impairment in schizophrenia, it also has been suggested that one of the major operational criteria of schizophrenia is a higher motivation to avoid failure than t o attain success. McReynolds (4) cmpirically demonstrated that a schizophrenic sample did manifest greater failure avoidance and less success attainment. However, one confounding factor in his study was that 35y0 of his normals were students, which conceivably could affect the results of a success-failure inventory.…”

Section: Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Androgyny and need achievement in male and female psychiatric inpatients

1976

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

An androgyny (gender identity) and a need achievement (n Ach) test were given to 28 normals, 23 schizophrenic patients, and 23 nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients. The psychiatric groups averaged a little over 3 weeks of hospitalization. There were gender differences for the androgyny and n Ach tests, but there were no significant differences among the three groups and no gender X diagnostic group interactions. There were significant correlations between age and both androgyny and n Ach scores, but no significant correlation between androgyny and n Ach scores.

show abstract

Section: Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Androgyny and need achievement in male and female psychiatric inpatients

1976

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In order to explore the possibility that manipulatory impression management may be peculiar to certain subgroups of patients, a number of measures which might be expected on a priori bases to be related to it were gathered on 5s prior to the day of testing. The variables chosen included Ullmann-Giovannoni (1964) Process-Reactive scores, McReynolds-Guevara (1967) Success and Failure-Avoidance scores, the 12 Lorr-Vestre (1968) Psychotic Inpatient Profile (PIP) factors, age, education, and total months of previous psychiatric hospitalization.…”

Section: Personality/demographic Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roles of impression management in the interview, self-report, and cognitive behavior of schizophrenics.

Watson¹

1972

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

An attempt was made to determine which types of behavior serve as manipulative impression-management tools among schizophrenics. Three samples of open-ward psychiatric hospital male schizophrenics were studied; one was implicitly threatened with a return to the closed ward, a second was threatened with discharge, and the third received neutral instructions. The differential instructions did not affect interview or cognitive behavior indexes, but apparently did lead to manipulation on certain self-report scales (MMPI Hypochondriasis and Psychasthenia). An attempt to determine which subgroups of schizophrenics tend to engage in such manipulatory behavior proved unproductive.

show abstract

“…Success-Failure Inventory. The 22-item true-false SFI (McReynolds & Guevara, 1967) was selected to assess Ss' general cognitive set with regard to achievement-attitudes toward the likelihood of success attainment vs. failure avoidance. The inventory has an internal consistency of .82, yields a difference score between overlapping successand failure-keyed items, and is scored in the direction of a positive achievement orientation.…”

Section: Adult Nowicki-strickland Internal-external Locus Of Control mentioning

confidence: 99%

The irrational beliefs test: Its relationship with cognitive-behavioral traits and depression

Cash

1984

J. Clin. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A number of theorists have maintained that cognitive events such as irrational beliefs mediate various affective and behavioral disorders. Jones' (1968) Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) is a prominent self‐report instrument that assesses dispositional rationality‐irrationality with respect to 10 beliefs proposed by Ellis. The present study with a nonclinical sample of female college students (N = 114) evaluated the relationships among the IBT, locus of control, cognitive set for success and failure, interpersonal assertion, and depression. As predicted, irrationality on the IBT and on several of its specific‐belief components was related significantly to externality, negative cognitive set, unassertiveness, and self‐reported depressive symptomatology. Multiple regression analyses indicated that locus of control, irrationality, and cognitive set predicted assertion and that locus of control and irrationality predicted depression.

show abstract

Attitudes of schizophrenics and normals toward success and failure.

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

Androgyny and need achievement in male and female psychiatric inpatients

Androgyny and need achievement in male and female psychiatric inpatients

Roles of impression management in the interview, self-report, and cognitive behavior of schizophrenics.

The irrational beliefs test: Its relationship with cognitive-behavioral traits and depression

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About