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FAMILIAL FACTORS IN PSYCHIC ADJUSTMENT
Author(s) -
Cheraskin E.,
Ringsdorf W. M.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1969.tb01320.x
Subject(s) - medicine , psychic , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology
A bstract To investigate the influence of environment upon the psychic (emotional) state, 150 adult subjects were studied, in three groups. One‐third consisted of married women; one‐third consisted of their husbands; and one‐third consisted of unrelated females (randomly drawn) age‐paired to the wives. Psychic state was determined by a simple self‐administered controlled association test (Cornell Word Form‐2). In the two male‐female comparisons, the psychic responses were related only in the husband‐wife group, and in this group the correlation increased with advancing age. Since the husbands and their wives presumably lived under similar conditions, this may constitute evidence for the role of environment in the psychic state, without in any way minimizing other causative factors.