scholarly journals Psychological characteristics of eating disorders as evidenced by the combined administration of questionnaires and two projective methods: the Tree Drawing Test (Baum Test) and the Sentence Completion Test

2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichiro Mizuta ◽  
Yoichi Inoue ◽  
Tomoko Fukunaga ◽  
Ryohei Ishi ◽  
Asao Ogawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Projective Methods ◽  
Combined Administration ◽  
Completion Test

scholarly journals Socio-Psychological Characteristics of People Involved in Network Trolling

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Natalia Fontalova ◽  
Gulnara Turganova
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Passive Aggression ◽  
Psychological Features

Nowadays, more and more people are using different Internet resources to communicate with society. In terms of this, an individual can develop different specific forms of not quite traditional and not quite acceptable types of internet communication. This article aims at presenting the results of the research devoted to studying socio-psychological characteristics of people involved in network trolling. Global technical and social changes in the modern world make the subject of the research up-to-date. These changes influence both society as a whole and an individual participating in the process of communication, as well as the internet processes of communication themselves. Ninety-eight respondents have participated in the research. All the respondents were males aged from 20 to 25. Sixty-eight of them were internet trolls, thirty of them were not involved in internet trolling. The empirical research was carried out with the help of the following psychodiagnostic methods: the Sentence Completion Test by Sacks and Levy, H. Eysenck personality temperament test, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, the authors’ questionnaire for diagnosing reasons for trolling for each respondent. The article compares the young people involved in internet trolling of the people and young men who have nothing to do with internet trolling. The empirical data presented and analysed allow one to draw a quantitative and qualitative characteristics of both groups’ psychological peculiarities. On the basis of the data received the authors conclude that melancholic personalities are mostly involved in network trolling, the next personality type is the choleric one. The respondents involved in trolling are characterized by such socio-psychological features as passive aggression and a reduced sense of guilt.

scholarly journals Moral Dilemmas and Existential Issues Encountered Both in Psychotherapy and Philosophical Counseling Practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Therapy Room ◽  
Axis I ◽  
Existential Issues

This paper stems from clinical observations and empirical data collected in the therapy room over six years. It investigates the relationship between psychotherapy and philosophical counseling, proposing an integrative model of counseling. During cognitive behavior therapy sessions with clients who turn to therapy in order to solve their clinical issues, the author noticed that behind most of the invalidating symptoms classified by the DSM-5 as depression, anxiety, hypochondriac and phobic complaints, usually lies a lack of existential meaning or existential scope and clients are also tormented by moral dilemmas. Following the anamnestic interview and the psychological evaluation, rarely the depression or anxiety diagnosed on Axis I is purely just a sum of invalidating symptoms, which may disappear if treated symptomatically. When applying the Sentence Completion Test, an 80 items test of psychodynamic origin and high-face validity, most of the clients report an entire plethora of conscious or unconscious motivations, distorted cognitions or irrational thinking but also grave existential themes such as scope or meaning of life, professional identity, fear of death, solitude and loneliness, freedom of choice and liberty. Same issues are approached in the philosophical counseling practice, but no systematic research has been done yet in the field. Future research and investigation is needed in order to assess the importance of moral dilemmas and existential issues in both practices.

scholarly journals Developmental themes in women's emotional experiences of motherhood

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNIYA S. LUTHAR ◽  
KIMBERLY DOYLE ◽  
NANCY E. SUCHMAN ◽  
LINDA MAYES
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Ego Development ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Maternal Role ◽  
Adjustment Problems ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Psychological Difficulties ◽  
Self Examination ◽  
Washington University

In this study, women's levels of ego development and their psychological difficulties were examined in relation to feelings in the maternal role. The sample consisted of 91 mothers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Ego development was assessed by the Washington University Sentence Completion Test, and psychological difficulties were operationalized by self-reported global symptomatology, maternal substance abuse, and expressed anger. Outcome variables included feelings of satisfaction, distress, and support in the maternal role, as well as the degree to which negative and positive emotions were integrated in response to hypothetical vignettes of challenging everyday child-rearing experiences. Hypotheses were that women at high levels of ego development would show greater deterioration in the presence versus absence of self-reported adjustment problems than would those at lower levels. A series of interaction effects each indicated trends consistent with the hypotheses. These results add to accumulating evidence that tendencies toward self-examination, characteristic of high developmental levels, do not inevitably serve protective functions but may be linked with heightened reactivity to negative intrapsychic forces.

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