Test-retest characteristics of a group of attempted suicide patients.

Philip, Alistair E.; McCULLOCH, J.W.

doi:10.1037/h0029028

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“…Many studies have shown volunteers to be more^ anxious (e.g., Rosen, 1951;Schubert, 1964), whereas others (e.g., Myers, Murphy, Smith. & Goffard, Note 2;Philip & McCulloch, 1970;Scheier, 1959) have reported volunteers to be less anxious. Rosenthal and Rosnow (1969) hypothesize that volunteers for more threatening experiments are less anxious than are nonvolunteers, whereas volunteers for less threatening experiments are more anxious than are nonvolunteers.…”

Section: Anxietymentioning

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Risk taking as motivation for volunteering for a hazardous experiment

Jobe

Holgate

Scrapansky

1983

Journal of Personality

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Army male enlisted personnel were tested in two experiments to assess the psychological correlates of volunteering for a hazardous combat simulation, (Experiment 1) and a riskless, psychological experiment (Experiment 2). Subjects were given a biographical and personal habit questionnaire, the IPAT Anxiety Scale, Rotter's Locus of Control Scale, and Torrance and Ziller's life experience inventory. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that volunteers were significantly less anxious, and more willing to take risks than were nonvolunteers. Noncommissioned officers, smokers, laterborn children, and children of lower socioeconomic class parents were significantly overrepresented among the volunteers for this hazardous experiment. In Experiment 2, which solicited volunteers for a routine, nonhazardous experiment, the only variable to discriminate the volunteers from the nonvolunteers was mothers' education level. Results are in agreement with findings, using college students, that volunteer samples differ significantly from nonvolunteer samples, and that the characteristics that discriminate these two groups vary as a function of situational factors.

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Section: Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk taking as motivation for volunteering for a hazardous experiment

Jobe

Holgate

Scrapansky

1983

Journal of Personality

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“…The latter consists of eight items by which Foulds empirically distinguished female 'hysterical psychopaths' from other groups. This measure has since been used by Foulds (1968), Philip (1968) ' Walton (1968) and Philip & McCulloch (1970).…”

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Towards the Investigation of Personality Deviance

McIver

Presly²

1974

Br J Soc Clin Psychol

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This study derives from Foulds' (1971) model of personality deviance and is concerned with identifying measures of deviant traits characteristic of personality deviants of the ‘psychopathic’ type. The Character Disorder Scale of the SSI (Foulds, 1967) was employed as the criterion measure and three groups of female patients were studied. By the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov one‐sample test, 16 PF G, L and Q3 satisfied Foulds' distribution criterion for measures of deviant traits. Patients were described in terms of patterns of scores on these factors and two patterns associated with personality deviance were identified. These patterns accounted for half of the sample. None of the other six logically possible patterns was clearly associated with personality deviance. Cross‐validation was considered satisfactory. Further support was obtained using a different criterion of personality deviance (a rating scale devised by Presly & Walton, 1973). Since this study dealt only with the distributions of 16 PF scores, evidence of the temporal stability of G, L and Q3, and also the relevance of these measures to personality deviance of the psychopathic type, are discussed. Finally, some of the problems arising from the use of personality categories are considered.

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