Validation of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank for college screening.

Rotter, Julian B.; Rafferty, Janet; Schachtitz, Eva

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“…Such contents do not pertain to individual experience and some researchers have recommended treating them as non-diagnostic. For example, in Rotter's Incomplete Sentences Blank (Rotter and Rafferty 1950), song titles, catch phrases or cultural clichés are not interpreted as indicative of individual experience and are scored as neutral. Therefore, we treated this category as one of two 'other' categories and did not interpret its contents.…”

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Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others?

Bojanowska

Zalewska

2015

J Happiness Stud

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The aim of the study was to understand aspects of life that men and women associate with happiness and to explore the connections between these associations and well-being (measured as positive affect, negative affect and life satisfaction) in different periods of life. Participants were 785 people who were asked to list associations that came to mind on hearing the word 'happiness'. The moderating roles of gender and period of life (adolescence/adulthood, transition/no transition) were analysed. Participants associated happiness mostly with health and relationships. Other categories included knowledge, work, material goods and freedom. Those who associated happiness with work had higher levels of positive affect. Associating happiness with relationships predicted greater life satisfaction, whereas associating it with material goods predicted lower satisfaction. Gender moderated the relationship between associations and positive affect: associating happiness with material goods decreased positive affect among men but no such effect was observed among women; associating happiness with relationships was beneficial for women but unbeneficial for men. Additionally, associations with material goods predicted lower positive affect, especially in times of transition. Associating happiness with knowledge decreased positive affect in adolescents and increased it in adults. Some ways of understanding happiness improved life satisfaction but none were related to negative affect. The relationship between concepts of happiness and positive affect is complex; some concepts are unbeneficial only for some people and during certain periods of life.

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Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others?

Bojanowska

Zalewska

2015

J Happiness Stud

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“…Four psychological instruments were included in the routine psychological test battery: (1) Self-Rating Behavioral Scale (SRBS; Cautela & Upper, 1975); (2) Behavioral Analysis History Questionnaire (BAHQ; Cautela & Upper, 1976); (3) Shipley Institute of Living Scale (Shipley, 1940); and, (4) Incomplete Sentences Blank (ISB; Rotter, 1950). These instruments were chosen for their ability to provide a psychological assessment that could be performed efficiently with virtually all prospective clients on or about the time of their intake consultation interview at the Clinic.…”

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“…The Shipley Institute of Living Scale provides a rapid estimate of WAIS IQ (Paulsen & Lin, 1970). Finally, the ISB is a short projective measure of psychological maladjustment (Rotter & Rafferty, 1950).…”

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Symptomatic correlates of alcohol abuse as a presenting problem

Scaturo

Lesure

1985

J. Clin. Psychol.

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This investigation examined a large number of self‐reported symptoms of psychopathology. Its specific purpose was to assess their relationship to alcohol abuse as a self‐indicated problem behavior. Participants in the study were 72 adults of both sexes who sought mental health services at a Veterans Administration outpatient Mental Hygiene Clinic. The self‐reporting instrument was a behavioral problem checklist that was administered as part of a routine psychological test battery given at the time of each client's intake assessment at the Clinic. A correlational analysis of these data revealed that several broad areas of psychopathology were related significantly to alcohol abuse: Social/interpersonal skill deficits, anxiety, addiction proneness, impulse dyscontrol, and self‐destructive ideation. These findings support a social learning theory of alcohol abuse. The results also imply that future treatment approaches to excessive drinking should include social skill and relaxation training as well as attention to traditional clinical concerns with self‐destructive thinking and impulse control.

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“…References: [89,90]. Aim: measure action tendencies, especially acting-out and aggressive behavior in children and adults.…”

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Draw, Write, Speak, Play: The Role of Projection in Diagnosis and Therapy of Children and Adolescents

Maurer¹

2017

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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In this chapter, I will (1) review the concept and function of projective mechanisms on a psychodynamic basis. In this section, I will outline the relation of projection to the unconscious, its use in innerpsychic dynamics, and the underlying mechanisms for its use in psychotherapy like creativity, imagination, and symbolization; (2) give an overview over the use of projective methods for testing and diagnosis in the psychological sciences; and (3) exemplify the use of projective methods in diagnostics and psychotherapy of children and adolescents. I will present current methods based on drawing, verbally describing and imaginating, and playing arts, focusing on sand play therapy and miniature figure play.Keywords: projective methodology, object relation theory, sandplay therapy, figure play, operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics in children and adolescents (OPD-CA-2), thematic apperception tests, narrative1. Concept and function of projective mechanisms 1.1. The relation of projections to the unconscious The Latin word "proiectus" means "to throw forth," or "to cast forward," and with regard to psychological sciences, several definitions have been provided. First of all, Sigmund Freud [1] described the "classical" projection as defense mechanism when the ego is threatened and refuses to acknowledge the trait, it attributes the trait to the outside world [2]. Later on, Freud broadened his view of projective mechanisms and refers the term projection to a general primitive mechanism, not only a defense mechanism, implying that projection may also be present when there is no conflict [3].In this sense, the attributive projection can be understood as "ascribing one's own motivations, feelings, and behavior to other persons" [2]. This definition seems to be the most common, but © 2017 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. also the most (over-)simplified one. There seem to be no relations to psychoanalytical concepts of the self, or the unconscious. Most authors use this term to describe "any kind of externalization" [2] with a correlation between characteristics of the proband and predictions or statements issued. The attributive projection is mostly similar what Horney called the "naïve" projection, which means that the subject assumes that others think, feel and behave in the same way as oneself [4]. Today, this view can be integrated into the concept of mentalization.In a third view, Murstein introduced the autistic projection as "perceived aspects of another person which are modified to accomplish own needs [2]."In the fourth mode of rationalized projection, the process of projection lies in the unconscious, but the projector is conscious of his/her behavior. In this context, the rationalized projection can be understood as "defence against guilt [2]," ...

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Validation of the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank for college screening.

Cited by 60 publications

References 8 publications

Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others?

Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others?

Symptomatic correlates of alcohol abuse as a presenting problem

Draw, Write, Speak, Play: The Role of Projection in Diagnosis and Therapy of Children and Adolescents

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