The British Journal of Psychiatry 130: 29-31 (1977)
© 1977 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Personality and coping with psychiatric symptoms
GA Foulds and A Bedford
An attempt was made to extend and cross-validate Mayo's (1969) study of
"normals with symptoms" using the new Personal Illness measures. Groups of
psychiatric patients and symptom-free normals were matched with a "normals
with symptoms" group for age and sex. The two symptom groups were similarly
matched on the number of symptoms as assessed by the
Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. On the Personality Deviance Scales the
"normals with symptoms" were found to be the most Extrapunitive group, the
symptom-free normals had the lowest Intropunitive scores, whilst the
patient group were the lowest scorers on Dominance.