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Neuroticism, Distortion and Objective Manifestations of Anxiety in Males with Malignant Disease
Author(s) -
HUGGAN R. E.
Publication year - 1968
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.2044-8260.1968.tb00570.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , anxiety , psychology , personality , clinical psychology , distortion (music) , disease , cancer , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , amplifier , cmos , electronic engineering , engineering
Data, in the form of responses of male cancer patients and controls to the Psychosomatic Research Battery, are presented. The emergent picture of the male cancer patient is of a personality type characterized by high Distortion scores, low Neuroticism and low Anxiety, where the measures of Anxiety used are susceptible to distortion. Where the Anxiety measures seem free from distorting influence the cancer patients are more anxious than the controls. Intercorrelations between devices measuring Distortion, Questionnaire Neuroticism and Anxiety and the Objective Anxiety Factor (U.I. 24) are also reported.