Stability of Schizophrenic Affect and Values

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
Alexander Tolor ◽  
Jerome Mabli
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Affect Adjective ◽  
Over Time

The stability over time of schizophrenics' personal values and emotional responses was studied using an especially devised Preference Schedule and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List. Daily testing of 50 hospitalized schizophrenics and 22 controls over 2 wk. revealed greater variability of preference, but no greater fluctuation in affect, for schizophrenics. The schizophrenics, however, scored higher in Anxiety and Depression than normals. It was suggested that the emotions of schizophrenics represent fairly stable and enduring systems whereas personal values and preferences are part of more fluctuating processes. Some of these findings are consistent with Shakow's theory of the schizophrenic's impaired integrating ability that interferes with the maintenance of major sets.

Expectancy and Birth Order as Determinants of Affective Responses to Isolation

1968 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Kathryn E. Link
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Check List ◽  
Isolation Room ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
Affect Adjective

This study examined the roles of expectancy and birth order in producing affective responses to isolation. 40 male Ss were exposed to an 8-hr. isolation experience. Ss used an affect adjective check list to describe their affects on arrival, after being shown the isolation room and told the conditions (expectancy), and after emerging from isolation. Most Ss anticipated high levels of negative affects which were predictive of what they subsequently reported in describing their actual isolation experiences. Ss who spent a prior day in the laboratory reported less anxiety on the isolation day than they had anticipated. Firstborns anticipated more anxiety and depression than later-borns but did not differ from later-borns in their actual affective reactions to isolation.

Multiple Affect Adjective Check List--Revised

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Benard Lubin ◽  
Christine M. Rinck
Keyword(s):  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

Anxiety Levels of Six Helicopter Ambulance Medics in a Combat Zone

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Bourne ◽  
William M. Coli ◽  
William E. Datel
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Combat Casualties ◽  
Affect Adjective

Anxiety scale scores from the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List were significantly related to the daily activities of 6 Army medics performing helicopter ambulance evacuations of combat casualties.

Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility in Rural Women

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 673-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Hertsgaard ◽  
Harriett Light
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Affect Adjective

760 randomly selected women residing on farms in a mid-western srate were administered the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List to explore factors affecting their depression, anxiety, and hostility scores. Anxiety scores were significantly correlated with hostility scores and with depression scores, as were hostility scores with depression scores. Factors that appeared to affect depression scores were presence and age of children in the home, church attendance, religious affiliation, involvement in decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level. Anxiety scores appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, church attendance, religious affiliation, decision making and husbands' education. Hostility appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level.

Role of Behaviorally Descriptive Adjectives in Description of Personality

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Merenda ◽  
Joseph L. Fava
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Construct Validation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Personality Models ◽  
Validation Research ◽  
Over Time ◽  
First Descriptions

Behaviorally descriptive adjectives and personality trait terms have been analyzed periodically by many psychological researchers and practitioners during the last half of this century. This analysis of personality-descriptive adjectives and terms has led to the development of several widely used adjective checklists for personality assessment and the postulation and the construct validation of several personality models. Foremost among the adjective checklists have been the 1948 Activity Vector Analysis (AVA), the 1950 Adjective Check List (ACL), and the more recent Personality Adjective Check List (PACL) in 1987. The first descriptions and reports of their developmental and validation research appeared in the professional refereed literature, respectively by Clarke in 1956, Gough in 1960, and Strack in 1987. The ACL contains 300 adjectives, various forms of the AVA contain 81 to 87 adjectives, and the PACL contains 153 adjectives. The dimensionality of personality models and the number of scales interpreted in the protocols from these instruments have either remained stable as in the case of AVA (4 dimensions, 6 scales) or have been quite variable over time. For example, the ACL was originally 5-dimensional with 6 scales being interpreted. Currently, the ACL yields 37 interpretable scales, and the PACL perhaps a 5-factor structure.

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