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Differential Response to Questionnaire Items of Neuroticism by “Defensive” and “Non-Defensive” Subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Donald Walton  and
D. Mather
Donald Walton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Winwick Hospital, Warrington, Lancs
D. Mather
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Winwick Hospital, Warrington, Lancs
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Extract

There are reasons for supposing that both neurotic and normal individuals are likely to react differently to questions about nervous and about physical symptoms, and that those who are readier to respond to physical than mental questions might be those who adopted a particular attitude or mental set which we shall call “defensive”.

Type
Psychological
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 455 , July 1962 , pp. 501 - 504
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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