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STUDIES IN PERSONALITY. II
Author(s) -
Ramfalk Carl W.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1966.tb01346.x
Subject(s) - ambivalence , psychology , anxiety , aggression , fixation (population genetics) , projective test , personality , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , medicine , population , environmental health
Experimentally determined fixation‐ambivalence measures are related to some anxiety estimates obtained from a projective test in a group of male adolescents. It is shown that (i) fixation increases with increase in corporal injury anxiety when ambivalence is kept constant, (ii) ambivalence increases with increase in separation anxiety when fixation is kept constant, (iii) extremely hetero‐fixated subjects show presence of intense guilt and absence of aggression towards the mother; one effect of this system of organizers seem to be suicidal tendencies, (iv) extremely ambivalent subjects have intense separation anxiety; one effect seems to be suicidal tendencies combined with high ambition and impaired cognitive capacity.