Processing of information about self by neurotics.
This article examines the possibility that neurotic people exhibit consistent idiosyncracies of cognitive information processing. Specifically, it was hypothesized that if a subject is presented with both negative and positive information which is said to refer to the subject's personality then neurotic people should exhibit a greater than normal tendency to selectively process the self-depreciatory rather than the self-appreciatory information. An experimental investigation with both clinically neurotic and normal samples employed a variety of experimental measures in conjunction with three personality measures (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Repression-Sensitization scale, and Social Self-esteem), and provided evidence for the existence of such an association.
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D003071:Cognition; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012095:Repression-Sensitization; D012649:Self Concept