GENDER AND NON-GENDER DISTURBED BOYHOOD SEPARATION ANXIETY DISORDER: THE ROLE OF AGGRESSION AND OBJECT RELATIONS AS MANIFESTED IN RORSCHACH IMAGERY (THOUGHT, COGNITIVE).
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Title
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GENDER AND NON-GENDER DISTURBED BOYHOOD SEPARATION ANXIETY DISORDER: THE ROLE OF AGGRESSION AND OBJECT RELATIONS AS MANIFESTED IN RORSCHACH IMAGERY (THOUGHT, COGNITIVE).
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Identifier
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AAI8614678
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identifier
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8614678
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Creator
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GODDARD, RODGER JAMES.
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Contributor
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I. H. Paul
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Date
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1986
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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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This study utilized Rorschach scales to examine the role of internal aggression, object relations and cognitive abnormalities in separation anxiety disorder. Nineteen urban separation anxiety disordered boys ages 5 to 13 were compared to a group of fourteen normal controls. The hypotheses of the study postulated that separation anxiety disordered boys as compared to normals would: (1) score higher on scales measuring aggressive projective imagery, (2) evidence lower developmental object relations scores and, (3) have more thought disordered responses.;Results confirmed hypothesis II and III. All separation anxiety disordered boys ranged lower in their object relations scoring (p < .05) and had more thought disordered responses (p < .01) than the controls. Two distinct subgroups of the separation anxiety disordered boys were differentiated; those with an additional diagnosis of gender disturbance of childhood and those without the additional diagnosis.;It was concluded that the internal objects of separation anxious boys are potentially more dependently or symbiotically merged, controlled, disregarding of boundaries, overpowering, and/or subject to violence or annihilation, than those of the controls. The object relations of the ten gender disturbed boys were much more pervasively disturbed than both the non-gender disturbed subgroup and the controls. The non-gender disturbed subgroup was found to have significantly more symbiotic/dependency scores than the other groups.;In regard to cognitive functioning, both separation anxious subgroups demonstrated more total, and cognitive type, thought disordered responses (e.g., contaminations, fabulized combinations) than the controls. The gender disturbed subgroup additionally had more affective type thought disordered responses than the controls (e.g., confabulations). Thus, these boys potentially possess ideas and images that are unstable, idiosyncratic, boundary compromised, bizarre, fluid, and psychotic-like. The above findings are viewed by the author as indicative of severe and pervasive internal psychopathology.;Hypothesis I was only partially substantiated. The non-gender disturbed subgroup was found to score a higher amount of aggressive imagery than the controls on their initial percepts only. When the entire protocol was taken into consideration, no differences were found. This finding lends support to a previously postulated notion that these children may repress their aggression.
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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
