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M Kuda

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PubMed1993

[Self concept and ideal self concept in the Giessen Test of students in East and West Germany].

We report about a comparative study on epidemiological and psychological variables in two samples of students in the German universities of Göttingen (West Germany) and Halle (East Germany) from April 1991 (n = 438). We expected specific differences in the answers due to the differing socialization and actual life stress. In this paper we present results on self images and ideal self images, measured with the Giessen-Test. East- and West German students in general have similar self images in the GT-scales. There are significant differences between the study fields, suggesting a higher correlation between personality variables and subject of studies than between personality and country. In some gender specific items women in Halle show a tendency towards a more traditional gender role concept (less competition, importance of attractiveness). Men in East Germany compared to the western students emphasized freedom from anxiety and walling off. The ideal self image in the west is characterized by wishes for more sociability and less competition. In the east there is a tendency towards wishes for autonomy and control. The significant differences in gender specific items and in the ideal self image are discussed under aspects of socialization and actual stressors.

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PubMed1992

[Divergent locus of control in East and West German students].

A comparative study was carried out on the psychological situation of students in East and West Germany after the political changes of 1989. Results concerning the direction of the locus of control are reported. East german students show a higher internal and external locus of control. This, as internal attributions are concerned, unexpected constellation is discussed under aspects of the specific political situation, correlations with signs of adjustment disorders and possible inherent menace to the psychological equilibrium of the east german students.

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PubMed1990

Values, economic estimations, and suicide intent.

With reference to the special suicide risk among students, we define four criteria of suicidality: (1) suicide risk, (2) former suicide attempts, (3) prognosis of suicide risk in the future, (4) total scores of the FBS, a German questionnaire to assess suicide risk. The sample consists of 300 students, clients of a therapeutic counseling center. The statistical method is the multiple regression analysis. The predictors are sociobiography, personality tests (Giessen-Test, Hope Scale), estimations of economic conditions in the future with respect to general or personal loss of work, and preference of values, whether oriented more toward idealistic or materialistic values. The results show that the described parts of common variance between the criteria and the predictors differ from 35% (prognosis) and 54% (total score of the FBS). In between are suicide attempts (38%) and suicide ideas (45%). --Suicide ideas. The value preferences have a prominent part in the explanation of suicide ideas. The difference between individual idealistic values and materialistic preferences of society are responsible for this. --Former suicide attempts. Personality aspects and perspectives of the future have nearly the same weight. Less social potency, stronger feelings of insufficiency, and higher potential of aggression indicate the personality of persons with former suicide attempts. Unfavorable chances of getting work and negative expectations of the future are signs of a significant pessimism. --Prognosis by therapists. A poor prognosis is defined by certain personality aspects (self-insufficiency, dominance, less initiative), denial of value preferences and symptoms like sleeping and achievement disorders, free-floating anxiety, and more positive estimations of employment data. --FBS total score.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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[Phobia or fear in rural communities].

In the following paper an attempt is made to demonstrate by means of phobia that neurotic subjective experience can only be understood in its social environment. Patients with phobic symptoms far more frequently come from rural communities and small towns, i.e. from towns which have a ruraltype structure. To support this thesis, empirical-statistical results based on surveys at the Medicopsychological Advice Centre for Students at the University of Göttingen are cited. Further, it is shown that a meaningful integration of this statistical data with psychodynamic and sociological findings is possible. The resulting explanatory model illustrates the attempt to make as comprehensive a statement as possible about the structure of the phobia and its cohesion to social mechanisms. The phobia is not only interpreted as an intrapsychic occurence, but at the same time the boundaries to the respective social conditions are also demonstrated and reference is made to the parallelism of social-historical development and corresponding psychic structure.

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