title: Psychogenic needs in a 70-year-old urban population. Norms for the CMPS and sex and age relations.
abstract: Psychogenic needs according to Murray were measured by means of the Cesarec-Marke Personality Schedule on representative samples of men and women taking part in a health control in Gothenburg, Sweden. Means, standard deviations, stanine scores and a comparison with results from 50-year-old men and women and with 16-year-old boys and girls with regard to sex differences are presented. Men in all three age-groups scored higher than women on achievement and dominance, and women in all three age-groups scored higher than men on nurturance and sociability. Seventy-year-old men and women scored lower than the 50-year-olds on exhibition and higher on order and acquiescence. The difference between the sexes was smaller in 70-year-olds than in 50-year-olds with regard to nurturance. The standard deviations were generally smaller in 70-year-olds than in 50-year-olds. Four out of the 11 subscales had distributions that were skewed in the 70-year-olds.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D014505:Urban Population