title: The A-B variable and preferred inpatient treatment environment.
abstract: Examined the possibility that college students' status on Whitehorn and Betz' (1954) A-B dimension would be related to their descriptions of the ideal psychiatric inpatient treatment setting. Sixty-one Ss completed the A-B scale, as well as Moos' (1974) Ward Atmosphere Scale-Ideal Form. Analysis demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between A-B status and 5 of the 10 WAS subscales. A and B Ss both differed significantly from a middle group of Ss, but did not differ from one another, in their ward ratings on these subscales. Factor analysis of the Ideal Form ratings replicated Alden's (1977) finding from analysis of Standard Form responses of a high degree of communality between 8 of the 10 WAS subscales.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment