The rationality/emotional defensiveness scale— I. Internal structure and stability
| Autor: | Charles D. Spielberger, Ray H. Rosenman, Gary E. Swan, Dorit Carmelli, Alison Dame |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Personality Inventory Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Repression Psychology Coronary Disease Rationality Test validity Developmental psychology Cohort Studies Cronbach's alpha Emotionality Neoplasms Humans Personality Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Repression-Sensitization Aged Defense Mechanisms media_common Incidence Psychophysiologic Disorders United States Survival Rate Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Female Psychology Clinical psychology Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 35:545-554 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3999 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0022-3999(91)90049-t |
| Popis: | In a 10-year prospective study, Grossarth-Maticek and colleagues reported that the tendency to repress and/or deny emotions was strongly predictive of cancer mortality. The method used to assess repression/denial was modified recently by Spielberger to form the Rationality/Emotional Defensiveness (R/ED) Scale. The present study investigates the psychometric properties of the R/ED Scale in 1236 male (mean age = 71.8 yr) and 863 female (mean age = 68.5 yr) participants in a 27-year follow-up of the Western Collaborative Group Study. Analyses revealed high interitem consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.77 and 0.78 for men and women, respectively) and two independent and stable factors that we labeled 'Anti-emotionality' (27% of total variance) and 'Rationality' (21% of total variance). Excluding cancer subjects, significant gender differences were observed for individual items, total R/ED score, and the two subscales. Comparisons of the 159 male cancer patients and the 175 female cancer patients with the corresponding noncancer subjects suggest possible gender x cancer status and age x cancer status interactions. These results challenge Grossarth-Maticek's assertion that rationality/anti-emotionality is a unidimensional construct and indicate the need to take into account the effect of age and gender on the presence of these psychological constructs. |
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