Biomedical subjects

W C Goggin

Publications and source records attributed to W C Goggin.

6 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1996

The escape theory of suicide in college students: testing a model that includes perfectionism.

A model of the escape theory of suicide was tested, using the following measures: the Life Experiences Survey, the Socially Prescribed Perfectionism subscale, the Self-Rating Depression Scale, the Hopelessness Scale, the Reasons for Living Inventory, and the Scale for Suicide Ideation. College students (N = 114) completed all of these measures, and results were correlated. LISREL path analysis failed to validate the proposed model. All proposed paths were significant, except for the reciprocal path proposed between negative life events and socially prescribed perfectionism. Two residual paths were also significant: from socially prescribed perfectionism to suicide ideation, and from hopelessness to suicide ideation. A revised model constructed from these significant paths had a good overall fit, which suggests that an interactional model is more appropriate than a linear one.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1993

The relationship between MCMI personality scales and clinician-generated DSM-III-R personality disorder diagnoses.

This study examined the relationship between elevations on the personality scales of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) and clinician-generated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev. [DSM-III-R]; American Psychiatric Association, 1987) diagnoses for 101 psychiatric patients at a VA medical center/psychiatric hospital in the Southeastern United States. Personality disorder diagnoses were made by employing a personality symptom checklist that consisted of all the verbatim criteria for personality disorders contained in the DSM-III-R. Clinicians who completed the checklists were required to have had at least 5 hr of direct contact with the patients who completed the MCMI. The results indicated that only the Schiozotypal scale of the MCMI was related to its respective DSM-III-R personality disorder in the simple correlation. An examination of the diagnostic efficiency statistics for each of the MCMI personality disorder scales revealed overall low sensitivity, poor specificity, poor positive predictive power, and low diagnostic power, which suggests that the MCMI may have only limited utility in identifying personality disorders.

Adult↗

PubMed1991

The false consensus bias as applied to psychologically disturbed adolescents.

In order to examine whether the false consensus bias applied to psychologically disturbed adolescents, outpatients at a rural mental health center who described themselves as very depressed or suicidal, and nondisturbed teenagers (who had no history of psychological treatment and were not at that time seeking psychological treatment), were asked to read a newspaper article about either a child's suicidal or viral illness death. Both groups of adolescents, like adults in previous research, viewed the suicidal child and the surviving family more negatively than they did the child and survivors of a viral illness death. Further, consistent with the false consensus hypothesis, adolescent clients viewed either child as more psychologically disturbed than did nonclients. Also, clients, as compared to nonclients, viewed both parents as more psychologically disturbed prior to either child's death. Results somewhat support the hypothesis of a false consensus bias which operates for depressed, suicidal adolescents when they view the tragedy of a child's death, but not when they are making recommendations about psychological help for the surviving family. Results are interpreted as suggesting that adolescent outpatients either view therapy as not particularly beneficial or as not particularly appropriate for bereaved individuals.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1988

Perception of behavioral contagion of adolescent suicide.

In order to assess perceptions of behavioral contagion of suicide (what people thought a disturbed adolescent would do if the teen knew about a suicide in the community), and to assess actor-observer differences in such perceptions, 142 college students were asked to view a videotaped vignette of a distressed high school student, and then to assess her potential for committing suicide, running away, entering therapy, or abusing alcohol. Subjects who were told that the teenager knew of two recent suicides in the community (contagion group) rated the young woman as more likely to commit suicide or run away than did the subjects who were not told of the suicides (noncontagion group). Subjects who were instructed to imagine that they were the teenager (actors) blamed situational factors, and in particular the teen's parents, more for her distress than did subjects who were instructed just to rate the teenager on the videotape (observers). Contagion/actors rated suicide as more likely than did any other group. Apparently, people believe that behavioral contagion occurs when a suicide is reported, and they especially perceive themselves to be influenced by such information.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1985

Age, gender, and interpersonal behavior development using the FIRO-BC.

It has been argued that many human behaviors follow predictable developmental patterns, or stages. The FIRO-BC was given to 9- through 13-year-old children (n = 282) to test for a stage-like progression in interpersonal behavior development. The data presented here failed to evidence an age-related progression. However, gender differences did appear in 11-year-olds and increased dramatically by age 13. Geographical differences were found in that the present data differed significantly from the normative data presented in the FIRO manual. The data also support the notion that, at least within the southern population tested. interpersonal behavior may be more related to puberty than has been previously supposed.

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PubMed1984

FIRO-BC normative and psychometric data on 9- through 13-year-old children.

Study concerned principally with the need to provide normative and psychometric data for the FIRO-BC questionnaire. Reported are the means, standard deviations, test-retest reliability coefficients, and interscale correlation coefficients. Data are reported separately for boys and girls (N = 282). In addition, techniques of FIRO-BC data analyses are reviewed and alternatives are discussed.

Adolescent↗