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Emotionality, Repression-Sensitization, and Maladjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. Blackburn
R. Blackburn*
Affiliation:
Leicester Area Psychological Service, Department of Psychology, The Towers Hospital, Humberstone, Leicester
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Much of the current research on personality questionnaires has concerned itself with response style or bias related to “social desirability”, in which the first factor dimension of the M.M.P.I. is implicated (Edwards and Heathers, 1962). Stable personality differences have been detected between those who are placed high and low on this dimension as measured by a number of M.M.P.I. scales (e.g. Pt (Psychasthenia), K (Defensiveness), Taylor's MAS (Manifest Anxiety), Welsh's A (Anxiety) Scale—see Christie and Lindauer, 1963). However, a lack of integration has resulted from a failure to recognize that the same personality variable is being measured by scales of “social desirability”, “repression-sensitization”, or the tendency to deny or admit symptoms, and as well as “social desirability”, this factor has been identified as “general maladjustment or ego weakness” (Kassebaum, Couch and Slater, 1959), and “neuroticism” (Eysenck, 1962).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 474 , May 1965 , pp. 399 - 404
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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