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PubMed1978

Harmful effects of clinical training upon students' personalities.

Subjects were administered the Eysenck Personality Inventory both before and after they participated in 40-hr. workshops. Those (n = 28) who attended workshops in applied clinical psychology became significantly more introverted relative to those (n = 28) who attended nonpsychological workshops. Gender exerted no effects and both Neuroticism and Lie were unaffected by any variables. It was concluded that such training in applied clinical psychology causes students to become much more preoccupied with their own thoughts, feelings, and problems.

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PubMed1980

[Psychological studies in congenital heart disease of childhood (author's transl)].

A series of 36 consecutively referred children suffering from congenital heart disease was studied as far as intelligence, personality and perceived parental behaviour were concerned. The findings support the psychological normalcy rather than the deviance. Only heart disease associated with physical handicap implies a risk of psychological abnormalities in the areas of intelligence and personality.

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PubMed1979

Psychological rehabilitation after myocardial infarction.

The value of psychological counselling in rehabilitating patients after myocardial infarction was assessed. A total of 143 men who had recently had a myocardial infarction were randomly allocated to either a group receiving intensive rehabilitation or a control group, their outcome being examined after six months. Patients with neurotic, introverted personalities had a poor outcome in the control group but a satisfactory outcome when rehabilitated. Neurotic personalities responded to help, and rehabilitative measures did not increase neurosis. In addition all patients with a negative attitude towards their illness and future had a poor outcome but those with a positive attitude did well. Selection by simple methods of patients who would benefit from psychological rehabilitation seems desirable.

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PubMed1975

The effect of therapeutic intervention on the assessment scores of narcotic addicts.

The findings presented tend to support already established trends reported in the literature concerning the performance of opiate users on standard psychological tests. Evidence which suggests that addicts are not functioning at full intellectual capacity was presented for the first time. Moreover, the use of psychological tests as outcome measures for drug treatment was indicated.

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PubMed1978

Clinical correlates of the PRF Androgyny scale in an alcoholic population.

Clinical correlates of the PRF Andro were examined in an alcoholic population. Measures included the Sensation Seeking Scale, Eysenck Personality Inventory, Symptom checklist--90, the Cornell Medical Index and Rotter's Locus of Control. Of 28 possible relationships, only five measures were found to be weakly associated with androgynous subtypes. Androgynous subtypes appear largely unrelated to the psychological and physical health of alcoholics.

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PubMed1985

Personality characteristics of the crosscountry hitchhiker.

This paper describes the first empirical analysis of the personalities of crosscountry hitchhikers. One hundred and four young adults were tested in 32 states using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as the measuring instrument. The results display the predominance of the intuitive and feeling functions among subjects, and also the utilization of the perceptual function in dealing with the environment. These findings suggest a personality which is impulsive and autonomous, having a high degree of tolerance for complexity and change, and strong interest in interpersonal relations. These young hitchhikers also differ on a number of personality dimensions from three comparison groups previously obtained by the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, but are most similar to students in psychological and counseling training services. Implications of the results in explaining this "nomadic behavior" are discussed.

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PubMed1979

The prognostic significance of psychological factors in the management of chronic bronchitis.

Eighty-three chronic obstructive bronchitic patients were psychologically assessed before being randomly allocated to 1 of 3 management regimes. The following measures were taken: psychiatric disturbance, personality, social-desirability response set, vocabulary, expectations about treatment, attitudes and beliefs about bronchitis, effect of patient's bronchitis on the family, work, self, physical exercise, smoking, and general health. Outcome was assessed after one month and again one year later, and the measures included physiological tests of lung functioning, an exercise tolerance test, reported symptoms, time off work, drop-out, and death. Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity. More important was the finding that, in bronchitics under retiring age, weeks off work during the year of the study could be predicted by psychological variables but not by physiological measures of illness severity.

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PubMed1978

Who cares about ecology? Personality and sex differences in environmental concern.

This study was designed to identify personality factors that underlie concern for ecological-environmental problems. High and low environmental-concern individuals were given the California Psychological Inventory and were found to differ significantly on many subscales. A factor analysis of the CPI data produced four factors which closely paralleled previous CPI research findings. In conjunction with this analysis, four factorially derived scores were obtained for each individual. Comparison of high and low environmental-concern individual's factorially derived scores showed high environmental-concern persons as having stronger value orientation, person orientation, and ethical-conscientiousness, but not differing from low environmental-concern individuals in terms of independence of thought or action. Further, high environmental-concern females were found to be significantly more extraverted, "leader-types" than low environmental-concern females; while the opposite relation was obtained for males. Thus, it appears that men and women become involved with the environmental movement for different reasons, Finally, additional implications of the involvement of basic psychological individual differences in determining ecological-environmental concern were discussed.

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PubMed2003

What are you like?: A personality profile of cancer and palliative care nurses in the United kingdom.

Occupational psychology has long been concerned with the proposed link between personality and occupational success or stress. The role of the cancer and palliative care nurse can be challenging and stressful, and the aim of the current study was to explore the existence of a personality profile for nurses working in this area. For this study, 178 nurses undertaking degree and diploma studies in cancer and palliative care at a specialist palliative care unit in northwest England completed the 16PF personality inventory and a demographic questionnaire. The mean age of these nurses was 38 years, and 95% were women. Approximately half (52%) were staff nurses, and the majority (77%) worked in hospital or community environments. The profile suggested that the nurses were extraverted, empathic, trusting, open, expressive, insightful, and group oriented. They were likely to be cautious when facing new ideas, potentially naïve in dealings with more astute others, and somewhat lacking in objectivity. Positive aspects of the profile suggested that they would thrive in a stressful occupation wherein caring for others and multidisciplinary team working are important. However, less positive elements may affect their ability to be influential members of the multidisciplinary team. The potential for using personality profiling for effective targeting of personnel, education, training, and improvement of self-awareness is explored.

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PubMed1998

Psychophysiological parameters and children's behavior during dental treatment.

Uncooperative children represent one of the leading problems in clinical pedodontics. The hypothesis of this study was that extraverted children reveal greater pain tolerance, lower stress levels and anxiety in general in comparison to introverted ones. A total of 130 children aged 11 to 15 years were studied, 55 boys and 75 girls. In the research, psychological tests were performed along with the measurements of some physiological parameters and children's own assessment of pain intensity. The results revealed the connection between extraverted personality and children's behavior at the dentist's clinic. Pain tolerance, levels of anxiety and general pattern of behavior were significantly dependent on psychological control mechanisms.

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PubMed1985

Inter-individual differences in the human circadian system: a review.

Measurements of physiological, biochemical and psychological variables at two or more different times of day reveal substantial inter-individual differences. This paper reviews studies which have dealt with these differences in terms of the morningness-eveningness, personality (introversion-extraversion), age or sex of their subjects. Studies of individual differences in the response of the circadian system to disturbance (e.g. shift work) are also discussed. The most reliable differences were observed in association with the morningness-eveningness factor. From the studies reviewed here it appeared that several rhythm parameters covaried consistently as a function of morningness-eveningness, suggesting underlying differences in the intrinsic period of the circadian system. It is argued that the differences in rhythm parameters associated with the personality dimension of introversion-extraversion are the result of exogenous influences. The results with regard to age-related and sex-related differences were not sufficient to allow conclusions to be made.

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