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...group seeking psychiatric help was lower on the F-scale, a test designed to measure the extent to which the subject accepts authoritarian positions in various areas. Students in the psychiatric group were lower on a measure of social desirability, that is they were less likely to endorse statements about values in a conventional and confirming manner. They were lower on a scale which measures the need to be different. For example, they were more inclined to say dislike rather than like to such statements as "Going along with a decision made by a supervisor or leader rather than starting...
...test of traditional value orientation, which means they were less inclined to emphasize the work success ethic, future time orientation, individualism, and puritan morality. They were also lower on the Self-Deception Scale, a test which is really a measure of conformity. At the same time, those seeking psychiatric help were higher on a scale which measure of conformity. At the same time, those seeking psychiatric help were higher on a scale which measures the need to be aggressive and on a scale which measures the need for self-display and attention seeking...
...which a person interprets sense impressions. The psychiatric group was more inclined to use that perceptive process which depends less on direct perception through the ordinary senses and more on the unconscious meanings attached to direct sense impressions. To put it another way, the students who sought psychiatric help were more intuitive and introspective...
...colleges that there is a negative association between religious preference and church attendance and the use of psychiatric services. Studies by Davie at Yale, Boyce and Barnes at the University of Western Ontario, and Scheff at the University of Wisconsin showed that students were more likely to seek psychiatric help if they were unaffiliated or were in the "other" category. In our study, Roman Catholic students were less likely than other groups to use the Psychiatric Service. Also, regular church attendance, as reported at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard, is associated with less frequent use of the psychiatric facilities...
These findings can lead to a number of hypothese about the role that religion plays in the handling of personal problems. (1) Religious students who have problems are more likely to turn to members of the clergy for help rather than to the Psychiatric Service. If this is true, it is possible that more religious students would belikely to come to the Psychiatric Service only when they have more severe emotional disorders. (2) Religious participation affords a sense of belongingness and direction that sustains an individual in the face of crises, both the developmental crises of adolescence and the accidental...