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Asthma and Aggression: The Investigation of a Hypothetical Relationship Employing a New Procedure
Author(s) -
BEECH H. R.,
NACE E. P.
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.tb00452.x
Subject(s) - aggression , sentence , psychology , asthma , verb , sentence completion tests , test (biology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , verbal aggression , injury prevention , psychiatry , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , biology
An attempt was made to examine, in children, the relation between asthma and the tendency to express aggression. A sentence‐completion test was constructed to assess overt aggression and was validated on three groups of child‐psychiatric patients differing in the degree to which aggression appeared in their behaviour. The test involved asking the subject to choose one of a pair of 'starters' and then to complete the sentence. Of each pair of 'starters' one would contain an 'aggressive' verb and the other a 'non‐aggressive' verb. A group of asthmatic children were, in terms of their scores on the sentence‐completion test, found to be significantly differentiated from the sample of 'non‐aggressive' children, but were not differentiated from the 'aggressive' or 'intermediate‐aggressive' groups.