DOCUMENT TITLE

Reduzierung von Ambiguitat: sprachstatistische Untersuchungen an "Normalen," Neurotikern, Borderline-Patienten und Schizophrenen. (Reduction of ambiguity: Linguistic statistics from normal persons and patients with neuroses, borderline disorders, or schizophrenia.)

AUTHOR(S)

Leichsenring,-Falk; Meyer,-Herbert-A.

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR

U Gottingen, Germany

JOURNAL NAME

Zeitschrift fur Klinische Psychologie, Psychopathologie und Psychotherapie; 1994 Vol 42(4) 355-372;

ISSN

07236557

LANGUAGE

German

PUBLICATION YEAR

1994

ABSTRACT

Studied tendencies to reduce ambiguity in normal Ss and inpatients with various mental disorders and assessed factors influencing these tendencies. Human Ss: 30 normal male and female German adults (mean age 34 yrs). 30 male and female German adults (mean age 33 yrs) (neuroses). 30 male and female German adults (mean age 29 yrs) (borderline disorders). 25 male and female German adults (mean age 27 yrs) (acute schizophrenia). 25 male and female German adults (mean age 44 yrs) (chronic schizophrenia). Ss' responses to the Holtzman Inkblot Technique (W. H. Holtzman et al, 1961) were analyzed with S. Ertel's (1972) Dogmatism Dictionary to determine their tendencies to avoid or reduce ambiguity. Intergroup differences were determined, and the effects of anxiety, aggressiveness, and stimulus ambiguity were analyzed. (English abstract) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1995 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)

KEY PHRASE

tendency to reduce ambiguity; hospitalized patients with acute vs chronic schizophrenia vs neurosis & borderline disorders; Germany

DESCRIPTORS

TOLERANCE-FOR-AMBIGUITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA-; BORDERLINE-STATES; NEUROSIS-; ADULTHOOD-; ACUTE-SCHIZOPHRENIA; HOSPITALIZED-PATIENTS

CLASSIFICATION CODE(S)

3210; 32

POPULATION

Human

COMPOSITE AGE GROUP

Adult

UPDATE CODE

9504

PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.

32-86004

JOURNAL CODE

1818