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Further support for these themes, although less definite, comes from test results that were significant on only one of the two samples. The psychiatric group was lower on a 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...
...Myers Briggs Test provides data which can be interpreted as measures of cognitive style, particularly of the kind of perceptual process by 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...
...Other test data that describe self-evaluation and self-activity are worth noting, although they depend on significant differences in only the 1964 sample. The psychiatric group was lower on the Self-Acceptance Scale and higher on the Anxiety Scale. There was also an interesting difference on the Expected Control Scale of the FIRO. This test is designed to measure factors in interpersonal relationships or interpersonal needs. Expected control assesses the extent to which the individual anticipates he can and will exert control over others. To that extent, a low score represents some feeling of a lack of effectiveness...
...involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college. Yet these depressions should be transient, from a situational and development point of view. That they are transient is a hypothesis that should be test by following students, like those the present project, into adult life and determining whether or not adjustment mechanisms and symptom change...
...Mickey make it? Does life begin at 38? Will the Brat and the Professor come to blows? Can Super Jew and No Neck survive the jug test? Those were the weighty, provocative questions confronting every red-blooded American last week. It was that time again, and Poet Don Marquis was probably right when he rhapsodized: "Oh, what the hell, it's spring." Marquis, of course, was not a baseball...