An attempt to employ a sentence completion test for the detection of psychiatric patients with suicidal ideas.

1960 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Y. Efron
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Suicidal Ideas

Eye Colour: A Physical Trait Correlates with Personality & Mental Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupali Chandola
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Physical Trait ◽  
Light Brown Color

Background: Eyes are the window to the soul, eye is so closely linked neurologically to the brain that you might call it the only part of our brain you can see from the outside. It seems to hold vital clues to our brain function. Therefore the study was conducted to know the association between colour of eye relate with personality and mental health Methods: Study examined personality of 300 subjects selected purposively. The study was conducted on 143 were normal subjects (77male & 66 female) GHQ negative (score less than 3) subjects from the community formed the normal group for the study and 157 indoor & outdoor   psychiatric patients (suffering with three type of disorder like schizophrenics, bipolar and conversion) (102 male & 55 female) admitted in Nirwan neuropsychiatric clinic Lucknow & Bareilly mental hospital, Bareilly U.P. India. Age ranging between 20-30, 40-50 & 60 and above served as participants. Sentence completion test (SCT) was administered on all the included subjects. Result: Light brown color of eyes male had high psychiatric morbidity (68.47%) then female. Conclusion: Colour of eye can be indicate the personality trait of human being black colour of eyes indicate negative traits of personality in female.

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.

Adolescent Ego Development within the Family: Family Styles and Family Sequences

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart T. Hauser ◽  
John Houlihan ◽  
Sally I. Powers ◽  
Alan M. Jacobson ◽  
Gil G. Noam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Ego Development ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Patient Status ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Style ◽  
Completion Test

We describe a series of analyses that were carried out using the Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS). This scheme was specially constructed to identify family interactions conceptually relevant to adolescent ego development. We present results based on the application of these scales to observations of 80 families, consisting of two parents and an adolescent drawn from closely matched high school and psychiatric populations. The families are predominantly upper middle and middle class. Each family member completed the Loevinger Sentence Completion Test and then participated in a revealed-differences task, using responses to Kohlberg Moral Dilemmas as discussion stimuli. Transcripts of these audiorecorded discussions form the database for our family analyses. The family analyses were of two general types. First, we examined relations between family style and the ego development of each family member. The style analyses were based on aggregate scores for each of the enabling or constraining behaviours. After controlling for patient status, adolescent age, and family social class, adolescent and parent ego development scores contributed to explained variance in these family style behaviours. Parental style behaviours, especially of mothers, were also significantly associated with parent ego development as well as adolescent ego development. We then examined family sequences in terms of their links with adolescent ego development. Through these process-oriented analyses, we discovered that the intensity of turn taking and reciprocal enabling (mutual enabling) interactions between mothers and adolescents were significantly enhanced by the ego development of the mother. Such associations between reciprocal interactions and parental ego development were not present for mutual enabling pairings between fathers and adolescents. In our discussion we consider the importance of adding these sequence analyses to our studies, as one more way of exploring relations between family factors and adolescent development.

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