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- Title
INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLOOD PRESSURE RESPONSES TO MECHOLYL AND PERSONALITY VARIABLES.
- Authors
Berger, Leslie
- Abstract
This study was designed to investigate the interrelationships between personality variables measured by both the Blacky Pictures and the Defense Preference Inquiry, and epinephrine-like and norepinephrine-like blood pressure reactions to intramuscular Mecholyl. Thirty hospitalized, open ward, male, acute, psychiatric patients were used as subjects. To evaluate the degree of relationship, phi coefficients were computed between the two blood pressure categories and the twenty-two personality dimensions. A norepinephrine-like blood pressure reaction to Mecholyl was associated with a rather primitive and infantile personality constellation, characterized by a tendency to utilize regression and projection as preferred ego defenses. The epinephrine-like blood pressure to Mecholyl was related to a strong attachment to mother, a lesser tendency toward regression, and the utilization of reaction formation as the preferred ego defense. The results of this study were quite similar to that previously reported by Funkenstein. Thus, the present data give further support to the hypothesis that the way an individual characteristically adjusts at the physiological level to a chemical stress is related to his underlying personality structure, and to his characteristic way of handling psychological stress.
- Subjects
BLOOD pressure; ADRENALINE; NORADRENALINE; BLACKY pictures test; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; REGRESSION (Psychology)
- Publication
Psychophysiology, 1964, Vol 1, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0048-5772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1964.tb03226.x