New Validity, Normative, and Scoring Data for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank

Lah, Michael I.

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“…Responses were scored blind to subjects' identities; the author's scoring was used in all analyses. Descriptive statistics were similar to those reported by Lah (1989): M = 128.87. SD = 14.94, range = 93 to 173.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The ISB measures degree of conflict in a variety of domains, such as family relations and social functioning, without relying solely on symptom reports. It has been validated with diverse criteria (Lah, 1989) and has different relations with measures of emotion (Catanzaro & Mearns, 1990) and peer nominations (Catanzaro, 1991) than does the BDI. Thus, comparing results obtained with the ISB and BDi allowed a test of the specificity of the dysphoria-minimal goal relation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Adjustment. The adult form of the Rotter ISB was used (see Lah, 1989, andWatson, 1978, for reviews). The ISB contains 40 sentence stems and requires that subjects write sentences to express their true feelings.…”

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Adjustment, Depression, and Minimal Goal Setting: The Moderating Effect of Performance Feedback

Catanzaro

1991

Journal of Personality

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In this study I tested hypotheses about changes in expectancy and minimal goal statements and the relations of these variables to adjustment. Seventy-seven male college students completed the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank and the Beck Depression Inventory and subsequently received success or failure feedback on tasks for which they provided expectancy and minimal goal statements. Expectancies and minimal goals changed differently, relative to each other, as a function of performance feedback. Modest relations of adjustment and dysphoria with minimal goals were found, but these were moderated by performance feedback: Under failure, poorer adjustment and greater dysphoria were associated with higher minimal goals; under success, poorer adjustment and greater dysphoria were associated with lower minimal goals, contrary to a widely held hypothesis. Moreover, although the effects of adjustment and dysphoria on minimal goal setting were similar in strength and direction, these effects were independent of each other. Thus, adjustment-minimal goal relations must be understood in light of situational parameters and may reflect two processes, only one of which is related to mood.

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Adjustment, Depression, and Minimal Goal Setting: The Moderating Effect of Performance Feedback

Catanzaro

1991

Journal of Personality

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“…The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (ISB) (cf. Lah, 1989) was used. ISB requires active construction of sentences and thus might be more indicative of implicit or automatic thinking than the other measures.…”

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Negative content of thinking in panic disorder and major depression–a self‐report study

Rosenberg

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Sevaj

1997

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the character and extent of negative thought content in panic disorder (PD) and the relation between thinking and bodily sensations. Content of thinking was explored in several areas, some of which are not exclusively related to anxiety. A structured diagnostic interview (SCID), a self-rating scale (SCL-90R), a sentence construction test (The Incomplete Sentences Blank (ISB)), and an inventory of childhood memories of parental rearing (the EMBU) were administered to 47 PD patients, 15 patients with major depression (MD), and 30 normal subjects. Thus, measures of implicit as well as explicit thinking, measures of thinking on present as well as past issues, and methods allowing negative as well as positive thought content to be expressed, were used. We found that PD was characterized by more negative thinking of anxiogenic, depressive, and dependent nature and less neutral or positive thinking than the normal subjects, primarily in issues related to the present. These negative thoughts were correlated with bodily symptoms. Very few significant differences were found between PD and MD, but a subgroup of PD with comorbidity of MD exceeded the other groups on measures of negative thoughts as well as bodily symptoms.

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“…Using the objective scoring method on the RISB, one study was able to reliably detect poor psychosocial adjustment in college students, differentiating those receiving mental health services 80 % of the time (Lah, 1989 ) . Similar results were found in detecting delinquent adolescent high school males compared to peers (Fuller, Parmelee, & Carroll, 1982 ) .…”

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Handbook of Assessing Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders

2013

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New Validity, Normative, and Scoring Data for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank

Cited by 22 publications

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Adjustment, Depression, and Minimal Goal Setting: The Moderating Effect of Performance Feedback

Adjustment, Depression, and Minimal Goal Setting: The Moderating Effect of Performance Feedback

Negative content of thinking in panic disorder and major depression–a self‐report study

Handbook of Assessing Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders

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