Ego disjunction and psychopathology.

Trehub, Arnold

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“…Trehub (12 ) found no significant differences among the means on ego-disjunction within his subgroups containing character disorders, neurotics, and adolescents. For the present group classified as sociopathic personalities however, there was a significant difference between the low and high anxiety subgroups on measures of ego-disjunction and ego-strength.…”

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Ego strength and ego disjunction in primary and secondary psychopaths

Evra¹,

Rosenberg

1963

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Ego strength and ego disjunction in primary and secondary psychopaths

Evra¹,

Rosenberg

1963

J. Clin. Psychol.

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“…ED is defined as the occurrence in the individual of two or more relatively strong needs with mutually incompatible objectives, and represents a type of intrapsychic conflict which disrupts ego functions. It is scored by summing the degree of disjunction for each indicator pair (Trehub, 1959). ED has been related to degree of psychopathology (Trehub, 1959).…”

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“…It is scored by summing the degree of disjunction for each indicator pair (Trehub, 1959). ED has been related to degree of psychopathology (Trehub, 1959).…”

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Ego strength and beliefs about the cause of illness.

Stern¹

1964

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Level of maturity of beliefs about the cause of illness was hypothesized to be positively related to ego strength among 47 men afflicted with Parkinson's disease. The causal beliefs were inferred from an interview and their maturity was defined according to their correspondence with medical explanations. The Ego Disjunction scale, the Worcester Scale of Social Attainment and Barron's Ego Strength scale were used to assess ego strength. The hypothesis was borne out among the scores on the ego disjunction measure. While a significant positive relationship was also found between social attainment and belief maturity, the importance of education in social attainment imposed a restriction on the hypothesis as tested by this measure Scores on the Barron's scale provided no support for the hypothesis. Education and religion were also found to affect causal beliefs. Belief maturity was discussed in terms of freedom from intrapsychic conflict.

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“…A scaling procedure which utilized the concept of incompatible pairs of needs (Heilizer, 1961b) demonstrated that pairs of needs are distributed continuously, rather than dichotomously, on a dimension of incompatibility. Furthermore, the four pairs of needs selected by Trehub (1959) were not at the extreme of the continuum of incompatible pairs of needs. It therefore becomes important to determine the implications that a continuum of incompatibility has for Trehub's theory.…”

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“…The purpose of this article is to extend and generalize Trehub's (1959) theory of need conflict (called ego disjunction) and to submit the revised theory to test. Trehub considers that intensity of conflict is solely a function of the sum of two incompatible needs, where incompatibility refers to the judgment that the behavior which secures satisfaction of one need excludes the occurrence of the behavior which secures satisfaction of the other need.…”

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Conjunctive and disjunctive conflict: A theory of need conflict.

Heilizer¹

1964

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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The ego disjunction theory of conflict for pairs of needs is revised to yield a theory of conjunctive and disjunctive conflict for individual needs: the concept of incompatibility is dimensionalized; the concept of compatibility is introduced; a combined dimension of compatibility-incompatibility is posited for all pairs of needs; however, joint scores of pairs of needs are not independent; the dimension of compatibility-incompatibility is therefore posited for all needs individually. Intensity of conjunctive or disjunctive conflict is specified as a function of the score for the need in relation to the degree of compatibility or incompatibility. Assumptions are made concerning variations of conflict within different populations. The assumptions generate predictions which are generally confirmed.

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Ego disjunction and psychopathology.

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Ego strength and ego disjunction in primary and secondary psychopaths

Ego strength and ego disjunction in primary and secondary psychopaths

Ego strength and beliefs about the cause of illness.

Conjunctive and disjunctive conflict: A theory of need conflict.

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