Sphere dominance, role orientation, and diagnosis.

The study explores the evolution of subjects' constructions of role-reciprocal interactions in a story about two ambiguous characters meeting in a singles bar. Patterns of role-reciprocal organization reveal a strong initial tendency to interpret initiative-taking as male behavior. This tendency persists at the expense of intra-role consistency. Microgenetic change in the temporal context provided by story transitions reveals a pattern of increasingly integrative organization, characterized by growth in balanced decentering between perspectives. The suggestion is offered that the development of social knowledge can be understood according to rules shared by the development of other forms of knowledge, whether at the level of ontogenesis or microgenesis, Asch suggested that we tend to organize bits of information about a person into cohesive, stable units. These units or person percepts are not unlike the units formed when we perceive "things." [1] Two principles emerged from the early person perception literature:1. the notion that there are some central, densely organized traits around which impressions are formed; and 2. the notion that the order in which information is received will influence the way in which impressions are formed.Typically, there is a strong primacy effect when impressions are formed from serially presented information.Much of the early work on person perception focused on the person as the appropriate unit of study and impression formation as the dependent variable. 277

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“…(These patterns were consistent with the hierarchial organization proposed by Werner.) [21][22][23].…”

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Initiative Taking as a Determinant of Role-Reciprocal Organization

John

Sussman

1985

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…One mode of viewing psychopathology (Phillips, 1968) has invoked the concept of human adaptation as the major variable by which the psychologically disabled are segregated from the psychologically normal. While the thrust of Phillips' work deals with "other than conventional" means of diagnosis, it still labors under the assumption that manifest symptomatology arises from one's lifestyle.…”

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“…That is to say, that an individual's general pattern of adaptation to society not only predicts the kind of pathology that will develop under stress, but also indicates the progress of the pathology. Some "other than conventional" diagnostic modalities such as those of social effectiveness (Lane, 1955), social role orientation (Phillips & Rabinovitch,195S), social competence (Phillips & Zigler, 1961) and sphere dominance (Phillips, Broverman, & Zigler, 1968; Fine, Note 1) all have searched for more accurate diagnostic measures. Virtually all of this work espoused a developmental viewpoint in studying abnormal behavior, as Werner (1957) explained in the principle of orthogenesis.…”

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“…These lifestyles reflect symptom constellations that are related to premorbid social competence and to outcome in psychiatric disorder. Phillips et al (1968) suggested that "Because the patient's predominant sphere of symptom expression, (i.e. , in action, thought or affect) and his predominant interpersonal or role relationships are of prime concern to the diagnostician .…”

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“…Each of the spheres was felt to reflect the following role orientations : ideational-avoidance of others, somatoaff ective-turning against the self, and motoric-turning against others. While Phillips et al (1968) looked at numbers and kinds of manifest symptoms in diagnosing patients in terms of the rolc orientations, three paper-and-pencil attitude scales were devised to achieve this same goal by Nuttall, Phillips, and Rosenfeld (1970) and Phillips (1968).…”

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The relationship between sphere dominance and nonpathological behavior with a further examination of the somato‐affective sphere

Feinman

Fine

1977

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Attitudes and psychiatric symptomatology

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Pcocc Corpa, Hauxaii PROBLEMRsmarkably little consideration has been given to the question of the meaning to be aeaigned specific individual symptoms in psychopathology. For the most part, symptom inte retation has followed two major lines of interest and theoretical commitment. T n the one hand, symptoms are seen only as signposts indicating the presence of one or another mental c(disesse" in the patient. In this case, the interest in symptoms lies only in their presence or absence. No attention is given to the information that symptoms may give about the person in whom they appear or about the problems he is facing. This approach to symptomatology is epitomiaed in descriptive psychiatric classification. An alternative ap roach to symptom interual symptoms carry the signature of a patient's unconscious motivational processes as these are filtered through his psychological defenses and other ego roce89es.Rsaently, Phillips, Inge Broverman and Zigler(') suggested a d e r e n t interpretation of symptom manifestation. They proposed that symptoms are expreasive of the behavior style which is characteristic of the individual patient. These symptomatic behaviors are presumed to reflect a pervasive and, indeed, lifelong set of attitudes which give coherence and direction to the patient's relations with his world. It is as if, over time, such attitudes bring into being a specific yet limited repertoire of behaviors. A given person's dominant attitudinal set precludes, or at least makes highly unlikely, other patterns of response. Symptoms, from this point of view, can be seen as simply expressing the person's behavior style as he tries ineffectually to cope with the problems unique to his life. (6) Findings in earlier studies have indicated that the psychiatric diagnoses atsigned patients correspond to consistent modes of behavioral response in the premorbid (6.1)) and pathological periods of life. ('. * I ) To this point, however, the evidence has remained inferential, dependent upon an internal consistency in adaptive and symptomatic responses. We propose to test the proposition that patterns of symptomatic behaviors are systematically related to guiding and pervssive attitudinal sets.Phillips and Rabinovitch(*) proposed that psychiatric symptoms may be thought of as reflecting the patient's way of relating to others, that is, his role relationships. From an empirical analysis of symptom clusters, they derived three role orientations: (1) Avoidance of Others, (2) Self-Deprivation, and Turning Against the Self, and (3) Self-Indulgence and Turning Against Others. Zigler and Phillips(") have suggested that symptoms indicative of a particular role orientation represent an overt expression of the kind of generslised attitudinal set we have just described. This study tests the hypothesis that symptom manifestation reflects attudinal sets. To this end, the authors brought together a pool of one-sentence statements, endorsement or rejection of which may be presumed to express a guiding attitudinal orientation. For example, it...

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Sphere dominance, role orientation, and diagnosis.

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Initiative Taking as a Determinant of Role-Reciprocal Organization

Initiative Taking as a Determinant of Role-Reciprocal Organization

The relationship between sphere dominance and nonpathological behavior with a further examination of the somato‐affective sphere

Attitudes and psychiatric symptomatology

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