THREE ADAPTIVE STYLES OF NEUROSIS DIFFERENTIALLY ORGANIZED AND DEVELOPMENTALLY ORDERED.
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Title
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THREE ADAPTIVE STYLES OF NEUROSIS DIFFERENTIALLY ORGANIZED AND DEVELOPMENTALLY ORDERED.
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Identifier
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AAI8222950
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identifier
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8222950
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Creator
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JACOVSKY, MARILYN.
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Contributor
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Samuel Messick | Irwin Katz
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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A distinct constellation of cognitive processes were proposed to comprise the hysterical, obsessive-compulsive and paranoid styles and to reflect three different levels of cognitive differentiation or progressive abstraction. The relationship of the cognitive processes of sensory respresentation, conceptual styles, integrative complexity, and scanning to neurotic styles was explored. It was expected that a developmental like pattern of response consistencies among these different kinds of cognitive process tests would emerge and reflect Shapiro's (1965) clinical observations of these styles of neurotic functioning. The objective of this approach was to offer a functional model of complex cognitive processes which were developmentally ordered in a metaphorical sense, according to the logic of Werner (1957) and Witkin (1965). A correlational analysis using the results of the Hidden Pictures Test (developed by Messick modeled on Smith & Klein, 1953 and Thurstone, L. L., 1944) revealed that the hysterical style correctly identified more hidden pictures than either the obsessive-compulsive or the paranoid styles.;These findings were unexpected. The analysis of the results were extended to explore the prevalance of any sex differences. The findings indicated that women and hysterical style personalities are, in general, better at identifying hidden pictures. Hysterical men, however, were better at scanning the Hidden Pictures Test than hysterical women. In addition, men who were better at correctly identifying hidden pictures retained more incidental information about those pictures. This obsessive-compulsive scanning process was not evident for females. Instead, women who correctly identified more hidden pictures were negatively related to a paranoid style of scanning and generally did not fabulate faces. The pictorial content of the test, however, may have confounded the results. The investigation was extended to include a factor analysis of the cognitive process and neurotic style variables. The hysterical and the paranoid style loaded on a sensory factor as well as a descriptive/scanning factor which was interpreted as contributing to their complex relationship at the correlational level. The findings however were unable to provide support for the constellation of hypothesis generated in this study.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
