title: Personality and coping with psychiatric symptoms.
abstract: An attempt was made to extend and cross-validate Mayo's (1969) study of "normals with symptoms" using the new Personal Illness measures. Groups of psychiatric patients and symptom-free normals were matched with a "normals with symptoms" group for age and sex. The two symptom groups were similarly matched on the number of symptoms as assessed by the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. On the Personality Deviance Scales the "normals with symptoms" were found to be the most Extrapunitive group, the symptom-free normals had the lowest Intropunitive scores, whilst the patient group were the lowest scorers on Dominance.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory