Neuroticism and emotional instability in high-grade male defectives.
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It has been found (O'Connor, 1951) that certain psychological tests provide a means of predicting the amount of emotional instability in high-grade defectives, when the latter quality is rated by psychiatrists acquainted with the patients. The psychological tests were of primary suggestibility, general locomotor coordination, and persistence. The multiple correlation of the results of these tests with emotional instability was 0-463, and they accounted for 210% of the total variance. Neuroticism and instability are terms used by many writers as though they were interchangeable, and the amount of both, when operationally defined, can be measured in part by analysis of the results of psychological tests. The relationship between these two qualities in our sample of high-grade defectives can therefore be studied objectively. How far objective tests, appropriate for distinguishing healthy from neurotic persons of average intelligence, will serve as well to differentiate stable defectives from those defectives who are neurotic or emotionally unstable, can also be investigated. Accordingly, the data were re-examined to provide answers to the following questions. Is there a relationship between stability-instability and intelligence as measured by tests, in a sample of highgrade defective boys ? Can " emotional instability " and " neuroticism " be used as interchangeable terms in describing defectives ? Do objective tests which have been found to differentiate normals and neurotics, also detect neurotic defectives, or emotionally unstable defectives, or both? If the two terms are not equivalent, what percentage of defectives can be considered emotionally unstable, and what percentage neurotic ?
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
دوره 14 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1951