Q-technique methodology in the study of healthy aged men: Part I.
The paper describes the application of the Q-technique to the study of healthy aged men. The research is an NIMH project, and the Q-technique was performed on the initial study done in 1957 (47 Ss across 550 variables). The paper focuses on clusters of interdisciplinary relationships which contained biological and cognitive influences. Twenty-eight out of the 64 clusters fell within this category. This first paper concentrates on methodological precedures and issues, and also presents 6 clusters of output derived from the first two Q-factors. The remaining 22 clusters will be described in subsequent papers.
D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003071:Cognition; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011779:Q-Sort
D001786:Blood Glucose; D010100:Oxygen