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Psychopathology in childhood and adolescence as reflected in projected afterimage serials
Author(s) -
SMITH GUDMUND J. W.,
DANIELSSON ANNA
Publication year - 1978
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.1467-9450.1978.tb00301.x
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychology , afterimage , anxiety , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
A serial visual afterimage (AI) test was administered to 136 normal and 75 anxiety‐ridden children 4–16 years of age. The scoring of the AI serials involved signs of primitive functioning (size‐constant and positive AIs), anxiety (large and dark AIs together with primitive AIs in older children) and process discontinuity (intermittent regressions to small, positive, or physiognomic AIs). Differences between normal and clinical children were generally highly significant in these respects. Special attention was directed to the difference between subjects with intermittent regressions to primitive functioning and subjects where regression represented a lasting functional alternative. The former subjects were more often characterized by paroxysmal or primary anxiety.