„Primitiveness” and „advancedness” of pleasures and aversions in relation to WAIS indices

✍ Scribed by Kent G. Bailey; John M. Millbrook

• Book ID: 101342365
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198401)40:1<295::aid-jclp2270400154>3.0.co;2-y

✦ Synopsis

Administered the Pleasure-Aversion Scale and all 11 subtests of the WAIS to 34 women and 28 men. On the PAS, Ss list pleasures and aversions, which fall into five categories: Reality Pleasure (RP), Fantasy Pleasure (FP), Reality Aversive (RA), Fantasy Aversive (FA), and Total Score. Each S response is rated by two trained raters, who use special rating scales. These scales provide ratings of cognitive "primitiveness" and "advancedness" for each listed pleasure or aversion. The five PAS measures essentially were uncorrelated with the WAIS indices for women, but a meaningful pattern of correlations emerged for men. Of most significance were tendencies for Reality Pleasure to correlate with WAIS Verbal indices (VIQ, FSIQ, I, V, and D) and Fantasy Pleasure to correlate negatively with WAIS Performance indices (DS, BD, PC, and OA). The strong correlation between RP and Digit Span was discussed from the standpoint of Bailey's primitive-advanced continuum (Bailey, 1982) and Gittinger's Externalizer-Internalizer dimension . Problems in generalizing from present findings also were discussed.