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J N Ebert

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PubMed1987

Reactions to blindness: a four-year follow-up study.

A previously studied group of newly blind adults was followed up after four years. There was only a slight increase in the acquisition of blind skills, while there was a surprising continuing pervasiveness of depression and poor health. A number of variables from the original study and from the follow-up data predicted outcome measures. Significant predictors of depression and distress were poor health, being married, being nonProtestant in this predominantly Protestant London population, and lacking ability to be more independent. Higher social class and an absence of a family history of blindness predicted greater distress. Earlier acceptance of blindness, early learning of blind skills, and better preillness adjustment predicted better coping and greater use of blind skills at follow-up. The extent of the depression and poor health are discussed, and recommendations are made for caregivers.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1977

Changes in primary process expression in hospitalized schizophrenics treated with phenothiazines: two projective tasks compared.

It was hypothesized that primary process expression on Gottschalk's Five Minute Verbalization Task (FMV) would be more representative of clinical status in schizophrenia than primary process expression on the Rorschach. Ss were 21 males and 15 females, ages 19-41 years, newly admitted to the hospital and treated with phenothiazines. The FMV was administered at predrug, five weeks, and 13 weeks, and the Rorschach at predrug and five weeks. Primary process scoring was according to the Holt system. Clinical improvement was measured by the Lorr IMPS and the Burdock Ward Behavior Scale. Over time, Ss produced less primary process on the FMV (p less than .001), while on the Rorschach scores did not change significantly. The scores on the FMV but not on the Rorschach paralleled some measures of clinical improvement (p less than .05). In a factor analysis, scores on the FMV and Rorschach were related to specific but different symptoms. It was concluded that the FMV was more effective in determining clinical improvement, while the Rorschach was perhaps more valuable in assessing the nature of the primary process thinking.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Verbal productivity and expression of primary process.

The effects of verbal fluency upon the production of primary-process thinking on the Holtzman Inkblot Test as scored by the Holt system were investigated for a group of 49 male university students. Increasing verbal productivity resulted in a significant increase in primary-process scores in both high and low primary-process groups, selected on the basis of a trial of unlimited verbal productivity. In addition there were consistent significant differences in primary-process scores comparing the high and low primary-process groups at different levels of fluency. The importance of considering the level of verbal fluency when using scores from inkblot records in discussed.

Cognition↗
PubMed1975

Profile of perceptual-cognitive traits and personality style of possible relevance to creative productivity.

The amount of illusory movement perceived on the autokinetic test, manifestations of primary process expression on the Rorschach, and creative productivity as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, were collected from 47 volunteer college students. Those individuals who expressed primary process thinking as blatant affect and the fusion of images, and elaborated on a stimulus pictorially, had extensive movement on the autokinetic test (P less than .05). We further delineated certain personality characteristics of these individuals employing a 26-item bipolar questionnaire. They are among other things, active, striving, assertive, in touch with and free to express emotion, rebellious, incautious, self-determing, productive, motivated to influence others, and excelling in producing objects or ideas which are unique.

Adult↗