Biomedical subjects

J A Armentrout

Publications and source records attributed to J A Armentrout.

11 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1978

MMPIs of rapists of adults, rapists of children, and non-rapist sex offenders.

Compared MMPI group mean profiles of rapists of adults, rapists of children, and non-rapist sex offenders. All three groups showed similar elevations on scale 4, but they differed in the extent to which scale 8 characteristics combined with those of scale 4. Rapists of adults showed an elevated 8-4 profile, rapists of children showed a 4-8 profile but with scale 8 somewhat lower, and non-rapists showed a high-4 profile with scale 8 elevated still less. Though there was marked heterogeneity in the two-point codes within groups, still the group results supported the notion that while all three types of sex offenders are impulsive and self-centered with poor social intelligence, the rapists of adults are more hostile, resentful, and interpersonally alienated than are rapists of children, and both types of rapists show those hostile and resentful characteristics more than do non-rapist sex offenders.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1978

The parent-therapist program: alternate care for emotionally disturbed children.

The development of an alternative to residential treatment centers is described. Healthy nuclear families are recruited and, in groups of five couples each, encouraged to function as extended families. Training in appropriate therapeutic techniques enables them to treat several disturbed children in their own homes. Evaluation of the program indicates that outcome does not differ significantly from that of residential treatment, but that costs are markedly lower.

Affective Symptoms↗

PubMed1978

Failure of the Bender-Gestalt and Wechsler tests to differentiate children with and without seizure disorders.

The Bender-Gestalt and WISC or WISC-R performances of two groups of 19 emotionally disturbed children matched in age age (9-1 to 16-7) and Full Scale IQ were compared. Each child is one group had a medically documented seizure disorder; a matched child in the other group had no present or past indications of organicity. Neither Bender-Gestalt errors nor Wechsler IQs or Deviation Quotients differed significantly between the two groups. The emotionally disturbed children with seizure disorders could not be differentiated from the other emotionally disturbed children solely on the basis of Bender-Gestalt and Wechsler test scores.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1976

Bender Gestalt recall: memory measure or intelligence estimate.

WAIS subtest standard scores, IQ scores, and factorial deviation quotients were correlated with Bender Gestalt recall scores for 111 vocational rehabilitation clients. The number of Bender designs recalled was associated significantly with intellectual measures, with the strength of association somewhat stronger with nonverbal than with verbal scores. Bender recall scores were correlated more highly with Perceptual Organization DQs than with Memory-Freedom from Distractibility DQs, but that difference only approached significance. Despite the relationships between Bender recall scores and intelligence scores, the Bender recall task could not classify Ss as to general intelligence level with greater accuracy than could be obtained with the WAIS Vocabulary subtest alone.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1975

Repression-sensitization and MMPI correlates of retrospective reports of parental child-rearing behaviors.

Relationships were sought between college students' retrospective reports of parental behavior and their R-S scores and MMPI profiles. In general, reports of greater parental rejection and greater covert parental control were found to be associated significantly with higher R-S scores and higher scores on a number of MMPI scales as well as greater overall elevation of MMPI profiles. Implications for clinical history taking were noted, and caution was urged in consideration of an individual's reports of past events and relationships.

Child Rearing↗

PubMed1975

Recalled parental behavior and objective personality measures: a canonical analysis.

Information about an individual's past relationships with his parents is an important component in psychological assessment procedures. To systematically connect these relationships and personality, two groups of college students completed an objective inventory designed to assess parental child rearing behaviors. Canonical correlational analysis was employed to relate these measures to the CPI and MMPI. A recalled parental behavior component described as Acceptance vs. Hostile Detachment/Involvement emerged as being highly related to aspects of both personality inventories, with greater recalled acceptance (and lesser recalled hostility) being associated with the more positive aspects of personality. Additional findings are enumerated.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1972