Wiley
0007-1293
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Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive IllnessThis is an account of further work on a rating scale for depressive states, including a detailed discussion on the general problems of comparing successive samples from a ‘population’, the meaning of factor scores, and the other results obtained. The intercorrelation matrix of the items of the scale has been factor‐analysed by the method of principal components, which were then given a Var... ...
Tập 6 Số 4 - Trang 278-296 - 1967
Psychoticism and thinkingIn view of evidence linking psychosis with high creative ability, an attempt was made to evaluate the relationship between thinking abilities and personality traits. Tests of divergent thinking and convergent thinking were administered, along with the Eysencks' Personality Questionnaire, to 100 university students. The hypothesis that ‘psychoticism’ is related to divergent thinking was str... ...
Tập 16 Số 3 - Trang 241-248 - 1977
A Social‐Psychological Examination of PrivacyPrivacy has been almost wholly neglected as an area of study. This paper attempts to clarify some of the basic conceptual problems associated with privacy which may have been partly responsible for inhibiting research. In particular, it examines the relationship between privacy and social power and norms. In conclusion, it suggests an approach to the measurement of privacy and an attempt a... ...
Tập 12 Số 3 - Trang 248-261 - 1973
A Quick Measure of Achievement MotivationMisleading experimental findings may emerge because experimenters fail to eliminate the effects of achievement motivation. It is suggested that few experimenters control for these effects because no convenient measure is available. The construction of a 10‐item scale of achievement motivation and a seven‐item ‘carelessness’ scale is reported. The scale's validity is assessed from correlati... ...
Tập 12 Số 2 - Trang 137-143 - 1973
Impaired Recall and the Memory Disturbance in Presenile DementiaAlthough subjects with presenile dementia have a very poor ability to retrieve material previously presented for learning under conditions of free recall and the usual type of recognition test, their performance was found to be not significantly different from normal controls when the initial letters of the correct words were provided at the time of recall. This finding raises the possibil... ...
Tập 14 Số 1 - Trang 73-79 - 1975
Attention and Information Processing in SchizophreniaThe performance of 20 acute schizophrenics and 10 depressives, matched for age, verbal intelligence and pre‐morbid functioning, was assessed on a choice reaction‐time card‐sorting task. Stimulus and response uncertainty were varied independently, and there were two main conditions, distraction and no distraction. The schizophrenics were slower than the depressives over all the functions ex... ...
Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 199-209 - 1976