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C H Swensen

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PubMed1986

Further investigation of the role of personality, lifestyle and arthritic severity in predicting pain.

Lichtenberg et al. (1984) presented empirical research on elderly osteoarthritics that indicated that personality, specifically hypochondriasis, was the most powerful predictor of pain as compared with arthritic severity and recent life stress. This study investigated further the role of psychological predictors and arthritic severity ratings in accounting for perceived pain. The study included 70 subjects with an average age of 68 years. The results indicated that hypochondriasis was the predictor most highly related to pain. Arthritic severity ratings and other psychological predictors were also significantly related to pain. In a multiple regression analysis arthritic severity predicted 13 percent of pain variance whereas the psychological predictors accounted for an additional 41 percent of the variance. Age of the individual was related to several psychological variables. New possibilities for therapeutic intervention are discussed.

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PubMed1985

Response to two presentations of the Sentence Completion Test of ego development.

This was a study of the differences among individuals on their performance on oral and written versions of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test of ego development. The study included 192 subjects from three age groups: College age, community residents, and retired people. No oral versus written differences were found in scores. Gender was the only factor to exhibit a consistently significant effect on Sentence Completion Test score differences.

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PubMed1984

The role of personality, recent life stress and arthritic severity in predicting pain.

This study investigated the role of personality, life stress and osteoarthritic severity in accounting for pain in aged individuals. Previous empirical research on older adults with chronic pain is nonexistent. The study included 40 subjects with an average age of 70 yr. Results indicated that personality, specifically hypochrondriasis of the individual, was the most powerful predictor of pain as compared with arthritic severity and life stress. Subjective pain was lower among older patients than among younger patients despite greater arthritic severity. The amount of hypochondriasis and life stress was also less for older patients. Implications for interventions in terms of modifying perception of pain in older adults is discussed.

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PubMed1983

The reliability and concurrent validity of alternative methods for assessing ego development.

This study demonstrates that an unstructured interview (INT) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) are suitable alternatives to Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development. Seventy subjects were solicited from six groups varying widely with respect to age and education level. Each subject was asked to complete the SCI, an INT and the TAT. Two raters using Loevinger and Wessler's self-training exercises and Loevinger, Wessler, and Redmore's scoring manual rated subjects' responses to each instrument. Reliability was found between raters and concurrent validity between instruments. Subjects scoring high on the SCT were found to score higher on the INT and TAT.

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PubMed1977

Self-disclosure as a function of self-concept and sex.

It was hypothesized that the amount of self-disclosure occurring in a dyadic interaction would be a function of the level of self-concept and the sex of the subjects, with high self-concept subjects and females disclosing more than low self-concept subjects and males. Two hundred and ten subject (105 females and 105 males) were measured for level of self-concept and then paired so that every possible combination of high, medium, and low self-concept subject paired with a partner of high, medium, or low self-concept, and a partner of the same or opposite sex, occurred. The amount of self-disclosure that occurred in the dyadic interaction was measured. It was found that self-concept was significantly related to the amount of self-disclosure. High self-concept subjects were more responsive to the level of self-concept of their partners than were other subjects. There was no relationship between the sex of the subject and the amount of self-disclosure.

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