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- Title
Correlates of the mental patient's acquisition of hospital information.
- Authors
Braginsky, Benjamin M.; Holzberg, Jules D.; Finison, Lorenz; Ring, Kenneth; Braginsky, B M; Holzberg, J D
- Abstract
This article is concerned with determining the extent to which mental patients are active and effective in determining their hospital fate. The article ascertains whether mental patients can establish and maintain the kind of life style they personally desire within the confines of a mental hospital, even if these life styles are opposed to the norms of the hospital itself. If one holds to the common assumptions that patients are largely impotent and powerless when confronted by institutional demands or that they are basically inept, helpless, frightened, and acquiescent people, the issue of patients initiated styles of adaptation would appear irrelevant. One empirical approach that can be used to evaluate the above assumptions would be to determine if mental patients differ in the kinds of adaptation styles they establish in a mental hospital and if these adaptation styles are primarily determined by patient pathology, institutional demands, or the interaction between the patients' longstanding needs, goals, interests, and attitudes and the hospital environment.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with mental illness; INFORMATION resources; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation; INDIVIDUALITY
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1967, Vol 35, Issue 2, p323
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1967.tb01432.x