The relationship between the ego strength scale and rated in-hospital improvement

✍ Scribed by E. Robert Sinnett

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196201)18:1<46::aid-jclp2270180113>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

Forty-four

Ss recalled names of six recent and six old acquaintances. Three names from each group were used in a Kelly Role Construct Repertory Test to elicit six constructs. One group then rated the remaining six people they had recalled on the construct-contrast dimensions they had produced and finally rated the same people on constructs elicited by other 8s. The second group, following the reverse order, rated first with personal constructs of others and then with their own.

As predicted, ratings were more extreme from the midpoint of the scale when using one's own personal constructs as opposed to the personal constructs of another person. No effects of new us. old acquaintances, sequence of ratings, or interactions of these variables were found.