title: Associating Embedded Figures Test Performance with extreme hysteria and psychasthenia MMPI scores in a psychiatric population.
abstract: 21 female subjects from a psychiatric population scoring high on one of two MMPI scales, Hysteria or Psychasthenia, were given Jackson's (1956) shortened version of the Embedded Figures Test. Hysteria correlates positively and significantly .71 with time spent in detecting embedded geometric figures. Obsessive-compulsiveness and Embedded Figures Test performance time are negatively correlated -.63. The average times were 102.5 sec. for hysteria subjects and 62.6 sec. for psychasthenia subjects. Chi-squared establishes the significant association of MMPI measurements for hysteria and obsessive-compulsiveness with field-dependence and field-independence, respectively.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000523:psychology*; D008950:MMPI; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012114:Residential Treatment