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A Note on Questionnaire Rigidity and Extreme Response Set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. C. Brengelmann
J. C. Brengelmann*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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This brief report draws attention to some recent results showing that questionnaire measures of rigidity and extreme response set, which are regarded as closely related variables, are likely to possess a much higher degree of generality than usually accepted and that they play an important part in the measurement of normal and abnormal personality.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 442 , January 1960 , pp. 187 - 192
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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