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PubMed1987

[Analysis of interpersonal experience as a function of psychological distance and the level of acquaintanceship].

Psychological distance between self and others was assumed, semiologically, to be experienced in four aspects (active representation, active presentation, passive representation and passive presentation) which can assume different values from one another. It was further assumed that there is a behavioral tendency to reduce differences among these aspects by means of two types of behavioral principle: egoistic and contextual. With acquaintanceship classified into four levels (total acquaintance, peripheral acquaintance, known stranger including familiar stranger, and total stranger) in terms of psychological distance and behavioral norms, it was hypothesized that the 'other' person who embarrasses us most is an acquaintance by norm but a stranger psychically. The results of questionnaire surveys supported this hypothesis and confirmed that it is difficult to treat the peripheral acquaintance as an acquaintance.

Cognition↗
PubMed1991

Communication, conflict, and psychological distance in nondistressed, clinic, and divorcing couples.

This study compared communication patterns and conflicts over psychological distance in 25 nondistressed couples, 15 clinic couples, and 22 divorcing couples. Data consisted of questionnaire reports completed independently by husbands and wives. The two distressed groups, compared with nondistressed couples, had less mutual constructive communication, more avoidance of communication, more demand/withdraw communication, and more conflict over psychological distance in their relationships. In addition, the divorcing group had less mutual constructive communication than the clinic group and evidenced a trend for more conflict over psychological distance than the clinic group. Consistent with past research, wife demand/husband withdraw communication was more likely across all groups than husband demand/wife withdraw communication. Results are discussed in terms of skills deficits and incompatability models of marital discord.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

[The influence on the dental staff by having the patient's mother beside the dental chair].

This research concerns the reasons for having the mother located beside the dental chair and the influence on the dental staff by the patient's mother. The subjects were a total of 390 persons, of which 100 children, 100 mothers, 100 doctors and 90 assistants. A total of 20 items consisting of 10 items from the psychological test and 10 items from the dental charts. Discriminant analysis was carried out according to the second class of Hayashi's quantifying theory concerning the entrance into the dental office or non-entrance chosen as an external criterion. The mothers answered questions on the psychological test about the psychological distance between the mother and the child. They also answered the questionnaires about their psychological process. The doctors and assistants answered concerning to "manifest anxiety scale" and questionnaires about their psychological process. The results are summarized as follows: 1. The ratio of the distinctive efficiency of external criteria to the entrance or non-entrance was found to have a high correlative coefficient, 0.70. When the factors mentioned above are ranked according to the external criteria the order is as follows: "treatment experience of the child", "adaptation degree to the treatment of the child", "birth order of the child", "clinical experience of the doctor", "the child's age". 2. The psychological distance of "the mother waiting out of the dental office" is longer than the distance of "the mother in the dental office". 3. The mother's presence in the dental office had some psychological influence on the doctor and the assistant.

Adult↗
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The perception of problem drinkers by general hospital staff, general practitioners and alcoholic patients.

A sample of 275 subjects (general hospital staff, general practitioners and alcoholic patients) was investigated regarding their perception of problem-drinkers. A set of semantic differential scales was used, and subjects were asked to evaluate the concepts of "problem drinker," "self" and "ideal self." Psychological distance was measured in terms of bipolar personality constructs between each of the above concepts. Significant differences were found between the groups in terms of concept evaluation and psychological distance. The implications of these findings for both research and treatment are discussed.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1989

Distance from mother and father among alcoholics.

The relationship of parental closeness to current behavior and related psychopathological indices is studied among alcoholics. Seventy alcoholics from an inpatient treatment unit and thirty medical inpatients were given a battery of alcohol related measures. These measures included a scale assessing the psychological distance from mother and father, a social closeness measure, an index of anger, a locus of control measure, along with basic alcohol-related information. In addition, the alcoholic sample was given psychometric measures of depression and cognition. Results show that perceived distance from parents is greater among alcoholics than medical patients. Comparison analyses of mother and father distance scores on the study variables of alcohol-related and psychometric measures yielded only a few differences. Correlational analyses showed, however, that distance from mother and father is related to parental alcohol abuse and parents not being at home but not to current behavior (except anger).

Adult↗
PubMed1985

Organizational size and perceptions in a residential treatment program.

Centralization of a residential mental health treatment program from three small houses to one large facility provided a naturally occurring opportunity to study the effect of organizational size on the perceptions held by clients and staff. Quantitative data were repeatedly collected on their perceptions of themselves, the organization as a whole, and subgroups within the organization during their involvement in both the small and large social contexts. Results of repeated measures analyses of variance provided considerable support for the theoretically derived hypotheses of heightened anxiety, self-impoverishment, more negative views of the psychosocial environment, and greater psychological distance in the large organizational context.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

The mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps.

Recognition priming and distance estimation were used to investigate the mental representation of knowledge acquired from maps. In Experiment 1, recognition priming showed that cities close in route distance primed each other more than cities far in route distance, even when Euclidean distance was equated. Experiment 2 showed that this finding was robust and not an artifact of the way subjects learned the maps. Distance estimations in Experiment 1 supported the priming results. These results indicated that psychological distance in cognitive maps is primarily dependent on route distance rather than Euclidean distance.

Cognition↗
PubMed1977

Family schemata in families of symptomatic and normal children.

Psychological distance within families was investigated by a family doll placement technique. Parents of emotionally disturbed boys tended to use a higher frequency of psychologically distant doll placement than did parents of normal boys. Parents of boys with learning problems used psychologically close doll placements more frequently than did parents of normal boys. Parents grouped the family into a single unit more frequently than their children when the child had learning problems. Siblings of children with learning problems were found to be symptom-free in comparison with siblings of disturbed children.

Adolescent↗
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[Interpersonal decentration in studies of schizophrenia].

The aim of the work was to establish the difference in the ability to interpersonal decentration between subjects suffering from schizophrenia and mentally healthy controls. The studies performed were also the basis for creation the hypothetical pattern of the deficit in interpersonal decentration which characterizes the behaviour of schizophrenics. Mentally ill patients presented lower level of decentric abilities in comparison with healthy controls. Presented empiric results showed that the specificity of interpersonal decentration (which was understood as an ability to, and actually realized behaviour) was based on extremely subjective outlook of reality which causes the elongation of psychological distance between patient and his/her social environment.

Communication↗