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Studies in Experimental Psychiatry. V: “W” and “F” Factors in Relation to Traits of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

L. Grace Studman*
Affiliation:
University College, London

Extract

Miss Simmins and Dr. Stephenson in their recent articles in this Journal have given some account of the “g” and “p” factors of the Spearman school, studied in relation to psychiatry. The part of the present writer in the research was to find some means of assessing factors in the field of conation and volition. The research consisted of two parts, a first tentative experiment carried out at Horton Mental Hospital in 1930–31 and a final experiment in 1932 at the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital and at Horton, by the courtesy of Dr. E. Mapother, Dr. Porter Phillips and Dr. Nicol, to verify the results of the first experiment and to secure more finely-graded results. The cases were carefully selected by the psychiatrists concerned, and the writer is greatly indebted to them for their generous assistance, particularly in the matter of supplying detailed estimates of personality traits.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1935 

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Notes

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* This test was unsatisfactory and was omitted in the second experiment. Google Scholar

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A test suggested by Dr. Cattell. See p. 121. Google Scholar

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This chart has been rearranged and reproduced here for convenience of comparison from Chart II in “Studiesin Experimental Psychiatry, No. IV”, Constance Simmins, Journ. Ment. Sci., October, 1933. Google Scholar

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* In a few cases, one or other of the ratings was missing, but there were at least three ratings for all cases except on such traits as sociability, where the experimenters could not give ratings themselves. Google Scholar

* The standard deviations of the two distributions were about equal, but it is not claimed that this crude comparison gives more than a rough approximation, and it is hoped that a more satisfactory method may be found for more exact work. Google Scholar

Scatter = range of scoresand number of cases at each point in the scale. Google Scholar

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* This difference is not statistically significant. Google Scholar

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* No attempt has been made in this study to analyse the responses given by the patients in their qualitative aspect. At the same time the varied “f” tests do provide ample material for observing qualitative differences such as have been noted on the Rorschach ink blots test and other association tests. Google Scholar

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