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Psychiatric Roles and Their Meaning
Author(s) -
HOOPER DOUGLAS,
PADDEN DOROTHY
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , flexibility (engineering) , semantic differential , psychology , psychiatry , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
Analysis of patterns of meaning ascribed to social positions in real‐life situations is important but difficult. The Semantic Differential technique provides the flexibility and meaningfulness which other tests lack, and its use is demonstrated in the results obtained from eleven nurses with specialized experience in a mental hospital ward.