Showing papers by "Daniel L. Segal published in 2004"
TL;DR: The psychological and neuropsychological correlates of bullying behavior were examined in a group of 41 middle school students (age range 11-15 years) and group-matched controls as discussed by the authors, and they found that bullying behavior was associated more with DSM-IV-TR Axis I diagnoses of conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and depressive disorder than in matched controls.
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TL;DR: Attitudes toward suicide and suicidal risk among 96 younger and 79 older adults suggest that older adults hold both adaptive and maladaptive attitudes about suicide that may be useful in providing a social and cultural context to the study, prevention, and treatment of elder suicide.
Abstract: Despite a burgeoning literature on some aspects of elder suicide, little is known about the specific attitudes that older people hold about suicide. The present study examined attitudes toward suicide and suicidal risk among 96 younger and 79 older adults. Participants completed the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Suicide Risk Scale. Regarding suicidal risk, younger adults scored significantly higher than older adults. Regarding attitudes, older adults scored significantly higher than younger adults on 7 of 15 subscales, indicating that for older adults, suicide was more acceptable, more strongly related to a lack of religious conviction, more lethal, more normal, more irreversible or permanent, more strongly related to demographics, and more strongly related to individual aspects. An implication is that older adults hold both adaptive and maladaptive attitudes about suicide that may be useful in providing a social and cultural context to the study, prevention, and treatment of elder suicide.
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TL;DR: Investigating the construct validity of a measure of Karen Horney’s (1945) psychoanalytic theory that postulated three neurotic trends revealed significant and differential patterns of the three HCTI dimensions with the three clusters.
Abstract: This study investigated the construct validity of a measure of Karen Horney’s (1945) psychoanalytic theory that postulated three neurotic trends: compliant, aggressive, and detached. Her theory was operationalized by the Horney-Coolidge Type Indicator (HCTI). One hundred seventy-two adults completed the HCTI and the short form of the Coolidge Axis II Inventory, a measure of the three DSM-IV personality disorder clusters. Multiple regression and canonical correlation analyses revealed significant and differential patterns of the three HCTI dimensions with the three clusters. Because Paris (1994) has noted that Horney’s neurotic trends may today be conceived of as personality disorders, one implication of the present findings is that Horney’s dynamic theory can be valid and useful in the general understanding of personality disorders from a cluster perspective. This study investigated the construct validity of a new measure of Karen Horney’s (1945) psychoanalytic theory. Horney proposed that people would defend against a basic anxiety (loss or separation from their mothers and helplessness in a hostile world) by various combinations of three strategies: moving towards other people (Compliant Trend), against other people (Aggressive Trend), and/or away from other people (Detached Trend). Horney saw the role of predetermined triangular conflicts, that is, Oedipal conflicts as secondary to child-mother or child-parent dyadic failure in the psychogenesis of character disturbances. She further postulated that healthy adults might operate freely and flexibly along all three dimensions, while ‘‘neurotic adults’’ may become crystallized or fixated along a single dimension. It has been suggested that her term ‘‘neurosis’’
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