Construal of self among the „psychiatrized“: Individual differences and
hospitalization status.
James Horley, Jaswinder Badesha
Dept. of Psychology, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta (Canada)
Abstract
Self-construal among individuals diagnosed with a serious „psychiatric
illness“ has been examined infrequently, and many variables possibly related
to self-construal and psychological problems (e.g., sex, patient status,
type of problem) have yet to be examined in detail. This paper reports
on research into a variety of factors that could influence self-construing
as predicted by the golden section hypothesis. Roughly 35 individuals who
were either psychiatric hospital in-patients or outpatients completed a
„self-other“ card-sort procedure to determine their use of positive (e.g.,
„good“) versus that the mean relative frequency of positive to negative
self-labels was differences among subgroups were noted. Female patients,
relative to male patients, for example, reported relatively fewer positive
self-descriptors. Some clinical implications of these results will be exam-ined.
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