Personality, Stress and Disease: Description and Validation of a New Inventory

Abstract

The construction of a new Personality-Stress Inventory is discussed, based on previous research and other types of inventory constructed on the same principles. Scores on the inventory divide people into six types, selectively prone to different types of disease. The instrument is administered twice, with six months intervening, and changes in the inventory scores are prognostic of the probability of contracting different diseases. Evidence is presented to show the validity of the questionnaire and the method used.

RETRACTED: Method of test administration as a factor in test validity: the use of a personality questionnaire in the prediction of cancer and coronary heart disease

“…However, the usual argument implies that predictive qualities are inherent in the questionnaire, irrespective of method of administration, and the inevitable subjective reactions of the testee to the whole situation of being asked intimate questions, the purpose of which may not be at all clear to him or her. Thus Amelang and Schrnidt-Rathjens (1992) have published a study using a modified form of the Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck (1990) inventory, but using a method of simply handing out the questionnaires to probands, whereas in the Grossarth-Maticek studies questionnaires were administered by carefully trained interviewers. Amelang and Sehmidt-Rathjens (1992) did find that sufferers from CHD and cancer had higher scores on Type A and Type C inventories, but failed to discover differences between cancer and CHD patients.…”

“…Questionnaires to measure these hypothetical personality types have been constructed (e.g. Jenkins, Zyzanski, Ryan, Flessas & Tannenbaum, 1977;Eysenck & Fulker, 1983, for CHD;Grossarth-Maticek & Eysenck, 1990, for cancer). There are two ways of providing construct validity, namely (1) demonstrating that probands high on Type C are diagnosed as suffering from cancer, while probands high on Type A are diagnosed as suffering from coronary heart disease, more frequently than vice versa, and that probands of Type B are found to be healthy.…”

Vulnerability and social class: differential patterns of personality and social support over the social classes

“…Eysenck, 1990;Grossarth-Maticek & Eysenck, 1990). These results provided strong evidence of a causal role for personality types, and the authors claimed that personality is the most powerful predictor for the onset of chronic diseases.…”

“…Disease-prone personality types were assessed by the Dutch version of the Short Znterpersonul Reactions Zncentory [SIRI (Grossarth-Maticek, 1989;Grossarth-Maticek & Eysenck, 1990;Sanderman, Ranchor & Bouma, in preparation)]. …”

Association Between Self-Reported Stressful Feeling by SACL and Mortality in a Japanese Community

“…However, there are a few studies [24][25][26][27] on the association between stressful conditions in daily life measured by a selfadministered questionnaire and mortality in a community population.…”