title: Attitude towards oneself and others in non-clinical population, depressed and paranoid examinees.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The theoretical concept of existential/life positions describes person's basic beliefs about oneself and others. Most of authors on TA postulated that every person has one of four possible basic life positions: I'm OK, you're OK; I'm not OK, you're OK; I'm OK, you're not OK and I'm not OK, you're not OK. The aim of this study was the authentication of Existential positions as theoretical concepts in Transaction Analysis, and it's potential to discriminate clinical from non-clinical examinees, and paranoid from depressive examinees within the clinical population.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research conducted was co-relational. The sample belongs to the convenience sample type, and comprised 200 examinees, 100 from the non-clinical and 100 from the clinical population of adults.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of the research confirm a statistically significant difference between the non-clinical and clinical part of the sample in the examined theoretical concept. The "I am not OK" existential position is more expressed in the clinical part of the sample. The differences between the examinees with depressive and paranoid disorders indicate that the examinees with the depressive disorder are more likely to express the "I am not OK, you are OK" and "I am not OK, you are not OK" Existential position.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In general, we can infer that the assumptions which the research was aimed at testing received partial validation. Examinees from the clinical part of the sample have a statistically significantly higher score at the position "I am not OK". Examinees with depressive characteristics have a more pronounced "I am not OK, you are not OK" position.
authors.affiliation: Centre for prolonged treatment drug addicts, Clinic for Drug Addiction, Institute of Psychiatry Clinical Centre "Vojvodina", Novi Sad, Serbia. danijela1@neobee.net
authors.forename: Danijela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Budiša
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gavrilov-Jerković
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dickov
authors.forename: Sladjana Martinovic
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mitrovic
authors.forename: Dragana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dragin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D014152:Transactional Analysis